Microprocessor controls and EMD’s new 710G engine first appeared together in SD60 demonstrators EMD 1 through 4 between May and June 1984. Years later, the prototypes were still testing new tech... (more)
Perhaps one of the last, if not the last Oakway SD60 in existence is seen sitting out its last days at the former EMD LaGrange plant.
I caught this beast in action on Sunday morning. It was bringing a string of oil cans from the Wildcat load out, to the Martin yard on the Utah Railway main. This movement kind of answers some que... (more)
EMDX Oakway SD60 9041 sits outside EMD LaGrange. I believe this is the last remaining former Oakway SD60s still in this scheme.
A leased spartan cab SD60 leads Norfolk Southern 191 over the Charleston Highway in Lexington County, South Carolina on the day after Christmas 2011.. She was built for Oakway in 1986 and spent ma... (more)
In 2006, Norfolk Southern Railway EMD SD60 #6632 leaves RRock Hill, South Carolina with Train 337 bound for Charleston. The spartan cab was built for NS in 1986. She is now Watco (WAMX) #6004.
Headlights pierce through on-going bouts of frozen precipitation as Canadian National's L53981 21 local trades the dense populous of their origin point at Ispheming for the remote wilderness of Mi... (more)
Norfolk Southern 155 waits on the lead across Whaley Street in Columbia, South Carolina for a new crew to take her into Georgia with SD60 #6589 on lead. The smokestack is at earby Whaley Mills, an... (more)
A trio of Chicago & North Western coal trains are led by new C&NW EMD SD60s at the railroad’s remote yard at Bill, Wyoming, on July 4, 1989.
A pair of SD60s crawl down the Cranbrook subdivision with an empty ballast train in tow; it is destined for Swansea, roughly 80 or so miles south, where it will be refilled and sent back north.
A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Q train passes through a cut approaching O’Rea Road grade crossing while climbing Bozeman Pass near Hoppers, west of Livingston, Montana, on the afternoo... (more)
SU-99 pulls out of Ridgefield Park with NYSW 3800 leading. This unit was later destroyed in an accident and scrapped.
Two then-"new" SD60s bracket an SD40-2 as they depart on train SU-99 for Binghamton.
A pair of former Soo Line units are on today's local.
GMTX 9000 sitting in the in front of the P&W engine shed in Worcester.
