Southern Pacific Country

Trans-Anglo sent Don Sims out in the late 1980s to capture the Southern Pacific on the assumption that it was soon to be merged into the Santa Fe. These pictures of the SP's glorious rails through mountains, tunnels, deserts, forest and across coastlines from San Francisco to New Orleans celebrate the railroad as it was in its last heady years of independence. Massive fleets of six-axled locomotives, double-stack containers, Oregon logging trains, long drags and sugar beet trains -- they're all here. The SP disappeared into the UP a few years later but at least on these pages, the Espee rolls onward. Illustrated throughout with black and white as well as color photos. End papers show system map. 199 pages.