On a winter afternoon, a loaded Western Maryland coal train behind an SD40 and an F7B has stopped outside the yard at Hagerstown, MD, awaiting a clear track.

On the afternoon of September 12, 1998, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train crosses the Clark Fork and passes the mile 210.3 semaphore east of Quinns, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s... (more)

The ever popular SP 7319, trying to emulate UP's Desert Storm unit, with it's mostly pealed paint job, was leading a westbound train up the Coast Line emerging from the Santa Susanna tunnel into a... (more)

At the Wheeling & Lake Erie’s Rook Yard in Carnegie, Pennsylvania; a train led by WE SD40 3048 (and SD39 6997) arrives. Meanwhile, sitting one track over is a set of four WE SD40s (3102, 4000, ... (more)

Mom! Don't leave me! The yard crew has just dropped off GP15 UPY 653, and is now heading back into South St. Paul yard.

An Original, Three Patches, and a Repaint

EMD power is in abundance as a Penn Central SD40 teams up with a patched Conrail SDP45 and a patched SD40 to lead an empty hopper train in... (more)

An SD40 and two SD40-2’s lead a westbound Conrail manifest into Reading Pennsylvania on the former Reading main line. The lead unit is passing the former Reading Brewing Company brewery, which c... (more)

The crew of a westbound Conrail TV train waits between Lucknow and Rockville as the weekly power servicing move from Reading heads toward Enola.

Built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in April 1971, 3170 was the first of 159 SD40 and SD40-2 units eventually rostered by the Southern, and she served for nearly forty years bef... (more)

An early Conrail repaint, SD40 6317, leads a Jersey Central GP9 and a patched Erie-Lackawanna SD45 westbound out of Allentown yard. This location is now known as CP Ham.

Missouri Pacific SD40's 3064 and 3067 near Taylor, Texas. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.

The next chapter of this loco has been determined. With full restoration (minus traction motors) the C&O loco's new home is now the C&O Historical Society. No suitable RR was found to finish the r... (more)

A classic MRL SD40 leads the Laurel-Missoula manifest. The train was quite usual this day as it had a huge cut of Abrams tanks that can be seen rounding the curve above the cut.

Viewed from the abandoned Western Maryland bridge over the Baltimore & Ohio main line at Rockwood, Pennsylvania, a Western Maryland SD40 gives an eastbound B&O train a shove toward Sand Patch.

MP 3080 at Fountain, IL, Sep 29, 1979.