BNSF / Santa Fe - 6511, a SD45-2 waits for its un-certain future at the BNSF Storage Yard at Galveston, Tx.

As BNSF Railway High Priority Merchandise train H-BARPAS7-18 passes through Kansas City on a long detour as it heads from Barstow CA to Pasco WA, we see Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe SD45-2 5704 on K... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

ATSF 5704 has returned to home rails, painted in a spectacular rendition of the bicentennial colors it once wore for the 1976 anniversary, as it rolls west on a Z train ultimately bound for the So... (more)

5704 Gets Its Kicks Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway No. 5704, an EMD SD45-2 built in 1973, makes its triumphant return to Southern California in its gleaming bicentennial paint scheme as... (more)

The American Bicentennial is just a year off, and Santa Fe’s fifth Bicentennial locomotive, SD45-2 5704, has still not been repainted. By this point, ATSF 5700-5703 were all painted and usually... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

As seen high above the cement plant that supplies half of this local’s traffic, MRLs Helena Local rumbles down the MT City branch with the newly fixed SD45 and an elderly GP9 for power.

After roughly two weeks of being in the shops after receiving a crankcase over pressure alarm, many thought the last of MRLs iconic SD45 fleet was done for. However, Livingston brought it back to ... (more)

Recently restored Santa Fe SD45-2 5704 sits at Kansas City's Union Station, looking amazing in its newly applied Bicentennial paint. And how often do we railfans get a chance to photograph a loco... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

Recently restored ATSF 5704 sitting at Kansas City Union Station with some storms building in the background.

Recently restored ATSF 5704 sitting at Kansas City Union Station.