A cool night at Mojave, California, on February 28, 1988, finds assorted Southern Pacific locomotives and a caboose resting until called to duty again in the morning. SP SD40-2r No. 7359 seems to have some turbocharger issues, as sparks from the exhaust eddy into the desert sky.

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A pair of new Southern Pacific GE’s heads west with a freight at Princeton, Colorado, on September 5, 1995. This is on the famed route over the Continental Divide over Tennessee Pass, and in this view, Princeton siding is in the foreground, once the location of the old main line.

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The west local traverses the Rocky Spur above an eastbound coal train powered by Southern Pacific AC4400CWs in the siding at Rocky, Colorado, on March 5, 1998. Power for the West Local is Rio Grande GP30s No. 3003 and 3006.

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After meeting a Santa Fe westbound, a heavy Southern Pacific freight climbs toward Tehachapi at Cable, California, on March 3, 1995. The train is powered by two of SP’s new SD70Ms.

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Spring is a couple days off, but the snow is wet and sticking to the trees like it is already spring. Four Southern Pacific AC4400CWs haul an empty coal train through the snow-covered trees at Crescent, Colorado, on March 19, 1998.

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