An Oakway Leasing EMD SD60 leads a mix of BN EMD and GE units downgrade with an empty coal train. Two fuel tenders to extend the range of the locomotives are coupled behind the diesels.

A busy day on the joint line sees two Oakway SD 60 led southbound coal loads awaiting a clear block.

Two Oakway Leasing EMD SD60 units sit westbound with coal empties just east of Grand Island, Nebraska.

Oakway SD60s 9043,9074 and C30-7s 5102,8155 at the head of a NCUX loaded coal train.

Oakway SD60 No. 9023 and a pair of CSX SD40-2s roar through the interlocker at Saginaw, TX, with a southbound BNSF manifest. Unlike other Oakway 60 at this time, the 9023 still has her "EMD" heral... (more)

Here I was lucky to get an Oakway on the point of a train, descending the upper horseshoe. Trailing units are SD40-2 7268, SF30C 9546, C30-7 5068 and SD40-2P KCS 616.

Sandhills SD60s
A Burlington Northern coal empty is westbound out of Ashby, Nebraska, heading for Alliance on a trip through the Sandhills on May 11, 1995. A trio of EMD SD60s power the ... (more)

Oakway Leasing 9021 crosses Spruce Mountain Road near Larkspur, CO on the Joint Line in June of 1989. As I recall, I was stranded in Kenosha Pass for a few hours due to 2" of hail from a T-st... (more)

Oakway SD60 leads a coal train east on Conrail's former NYC mainline east of BurnsHarbor, IN. This train would have been received off the BN in Chicago.

Oakway SD60 9004 leads a piggyback train west on the BNSF racetrack at Riverside IL on a crystal clear winter afternoon.

One hundred Oakway Leasing SD60’s were delivered in late 1986, and many were placen in service moving Powder River Basin coal. Here a Burlington Northern train of empty hoppers with two Oakways ... (more)

Four years after my previous submissions showing BN trains at Larkspur, Colorado, some six-month-old Oakway SD60’s lead a coal train over the same bridge.

An empty coal train gets a carman roll by at Thirwell as they depart for the Creston side. Thirwell is on the main that runs around the east side of the yard at Galesburg. Kind odd ball Soo Line u... (more)