Southern Pacific News

It has been years since steam locomotives dominated the rails of this country and many towns haven't seen one roll through in decades... Minot however, hasn't seen one roll through...in hours, thanks to an overnight trip by such a machine.

This photo from the Friends of the 4449 shows the restored steam locomotive, Southern Pacific 4449, which will pull vintage passenger cars through northern Illinois on July 18.

Portland, Oregon to Owosso, Michigan and return! A special train operated by the Steam Railroading Institute, Friends of the 4449 and the Friends of the 261 will travel over 5000 miles across country and return.

With release of its special Summer Trips issue, Nevada County is once again being spotlighted in Sunset magazine - a publication founded in 1898 as a promotional tool for the Southern Pacific Railroad.

If you'd like to imagine what this area looked like in 1880 before the railroad arrived, just drive a few miles outside of town and look into the distance where there are no roads, fields, homes, or electric lines.

May 24 - George Dietzel shot and killed an alligator eight feet long about seven miles down the river yesterday.

EDITOR'S NOTE: More than six decades have passed since World War II, but memories of the upheaval and transformation it brought home to the Valley are still strong in the people here who lived it.

Green Days is on the lookout for innovative sustainable projects throughout the Sacramento region.

Five thousand trainophiles came to Union Station for National Train Day on May 9 to look at Southern Pacific 4449, the sexiest Art Deco-era steam engine around, and the only one in the country still running.

An advertisement printed in 1892 announced that construction of the Velasco Terminal railroad had been completed along the route from Velasco to Chenango, connecting at Chenango with the International and Great Northern Railway for a distance of 22 miles to reach a connection 'with Houston, the railway center of the Southwest.' Developers of the ...

Albert Joseph Damon was a toiler who went from boilers to broilers. The Whys Guy likes him because his name is on a street in Carmichael: Damon Avenue.

Transportation in the archives Silent Sentinel Tucson celebrates the 129th anniversary of the railroad's arrival with a vintage piece of equipment gone high-tech Dave Devine Jim Staggs stands in front of the solar-powered semaphore.

Imagine life in a desert community cut off from the rest of the country. A 15-mile ride by horse is an easy day's trip; a 30-mile ride a lengthy, more grueling one.

He was an 18-year-old kid right out of high school making 36 cents an hour as fourth cook on the old Southern Pacific Coast Daylight, which is a nice way of saying he was a dishwasher, 83-year-old James Smith ...

Retired Southern Pacific porter James Smith looks looks on as an Amtrak train pulls into the station in Simi Valley, CA Monday February 9, 2009.

The Neil Young tribute band Southern Pacific will play this Friday, January 30 at McGann's Irish Pub on Portland St., Boston, MA.

The ground shakes as the Southern Pacific 4449 locomotive - owned by the City of Portland, and which drew the Bicentennial Train around the country in 1976 - powers up for a nighttime Holiday Express run along ...

For the last 16 years, the Austin Steam Train Association has delivered thousands of authentic passenger rail experiences to serious train buffs and novices alike.