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Southern Pacific at Roseville, December 1989.
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Tunnel Motor and a Donut Shop. Trains crossing vast western vistas make for compelling images, yet, back in 1989 I also made an effort to document western railroads in ordinary urban environments. in December 1989, this Southern Pacific eastward freight…
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DAILY POST: Daylight Beauty at Hooker Creek.
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On Assignment with Southern Pacific. Mount Shasta looms more than 90 miles to north, as Southern Pacific’s most famous locomotives races railroad west through along Hooker Creek (near Cottonwood, California). I exposed this image on September 2, 1991. Southern Pacific…
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DAILY POST: Celebrity Steam at the Niles Canyon Railway
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Southern Pacific 2472 Entertains its Public in May 2008 Back in May 2008, I was researching for my book Railroads of California, when I visited the Niles Canyon Railway and made this photograph of Southern Pacific 4-6-2 No. 2472 at…
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DAILY POST: Southern Pacific at Indian Camp, February 1994
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Brand New GP60s work the Modoc Line. In the mid-1990s, I made numerous trips to California’s remote and desolate Modoc County in the far northeastern portion of the state. Here Southern Pacific’s rolling Modoc Line hosted big trains which made…
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DAILY POST: Southern Pacific Yuba Pass, California 1992
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Westward Freight Descends Donner Pass. On October 4, 1992, Brian Jennison and I gave a Donner Pass tour to a pair of Union Pacific officials visiting from Omaha. We started the morning early and drove to Andover on fire…
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Southern Pacific SD45 at Old Gorge on Donner Pass, July 1990.
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Perspective Control Technique. I spent a lot of time exploring Southern Pacific’s Donner Pass in 1990. Among my favorite locations was ‘Old Gorge’, sometimes referred to as ‘American,’ where SP’s line rides briefly on an open shelf some 2,000 feet…
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Southern Pacific 4449 at Worden, Oregon, April 1991.
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My First Glimpse of the Daylight. Southern Pacific’s streamlined Daylight was one of the great classic American trains. It was so popular that a recreation of the train was assembled in the 1980s using traditional equipment, including one of the last surviving…
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Southern Pacific on Donner Pass, June 1990.
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Working with Harsh Light in the California Sierra. On the advice of J.D. Schmid, in June 1990, I’d bought my first single lens reflex; a Nikon F3T (which I still use, occasionally). Initially, I owned just two lenses: a 35mm…
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Union Pacific Stack Train near Oroville, California, August 15, 2009.
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Golden Grass in Smoky Light. On the evening of August 15, 2009, I was photographing along the former Western Pacific near Oroville, California. At that time, Union Pacific was doing heavy work on its parallel former Southern Pacific line over…
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Union Pacific’s Ozol Yard, Martinez, California, August 12, 2009.
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Graphic Use of Morning Light. This photo of Union Pacific’s former Southern Pacific Ozol Yard at Martinez was exposed from the same hillside on the same morning as the image of Amtrak in yesterday’s post (See: Amtrak Capitols Crossing Carquinez…