Running elephant-style, five SD45s (four 'straights' ad a T-2) race out of the glare of the late afternoon winter sun.

Coming into the small yard at Camden, an SD45 is leading a herd of diesels returning to service across the system after shop time at Pine Bluff.

Illinois Central ultimately acquired the very first SD45 produced by EMD. Prototype SD45 4351 became IC 7000 in January 1971. The 7000 lasted until 1987, when it was scrapped.

I am five miles east of Julesburg where the U.P. line from North Platte spilts to head to Denver or Cheyenne. Eastern Colorado may look flat but the 20,400 H.P. on the head end of this westbound ... (more)

On October 11, 2018, a pair of former Montana Rail Link SD45s sit in the afternoon sun waiting for a crew on the Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad. Soon, they will take the power and pick up the... (more)

Utah Ry. had only 2 of these leased, ex. SP, units in this gray scheme. Seen here leading coal loads down the 2% grade at Gilluly on the west side of Soldier Summit. Scanned from a color print.

A stranger from the West came into town on the old Nickel Plate Road in 1978.

Eastbound SP reefer train crossing Rio Grande River into El Paso

SP 8880 roars up the heavy grade at the west end of Magra, CA, in the heart of the climb up Donner Pass's western slope. The sides of the rails show the tremendous amount of sand that's been used ... (more)

Four UP SD45s roll an empty Kaiser Steel coal train eastward at Martinez on Cajon Pass. The train of high-sided coal hoppers is headed back to the loadout in Utah for another load. The tall and ab... (more)

Four big 20-cylinder EMDs hold back a westbound manifest as they hustle over the big fill just "railroad" west of tunnel 2. In the distance, we can see the right of way cut into the hill... (more)

Three SD45s whisk Wisconsin Central train No. 44 southbound across Pebble Brook north of Vernon, Wisconsin, on a sunny July 1, 1995.

SD45 6578 and F45 6653, both former ATSF locos, head south.

NP SD45 3617 leads a photo special on the North Shore Scenic Railroad, its first public appearance after restoration.

Union Pacific 49 has gotten a green signal and is beginning to move westbound out of the Yermo yard. In the land of SD40-2s, it was not very often we would see an SD-45 on the point of a manifest... (more)