As seen from State Line Tower, N&W's bicentennial SD45 heads north toward Chicago. Tom Golden photo.

A pair of N&W SD45s bring a freight passed State Line Tower. Tom Golden photo.

As seen in a panned photograph from the West Santa Fe Road overpass just east of Edelstein, Illinois, Santa Fe EMD SD45 No. 5357 leads an eastbound freight down Edelstein Hill on August 20, 1988. ... (more)

A bitter cold winter day has caused a rail break on the Wisconsin Central main line entering Shops Yard near the Subway Road grade crossing at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994. T... (more)

At its peak, the MRL once owned 71 SD45's. Much like the WC, they became well known for their 20 cylinder motors. Over time the roster has been reduced to four, two in service and two in storage/s... (more)

MRL SD45 346 heads down grade with 44 cars and 3,850 tons of freshly loaded ballast from the loader at Pipestone. The ballast loader at Pipestorne is the now terminus of the famous former Northern... (more)

CN "Rock Job" U700 overtakes a parked CN 5690 at South Duplainville. Just ahead is the Duplainville diamond where CN's Waukesha Sub crosses Canadian Pacific's Watertown Sub.

Not often does one get a clear rear view of GN's Big Sky Blue scheme on an SD45. BN 6451 shows off the simple wrap around striping and the fancy flared radiator rear nose. Built as GN 421 in July ... (more)

Several pieces of the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum collection sit underneath the fading sun on this summer evening. At the point is my personal favorite, Clinchfield 3632, which is actually ... (more)

Burlington Northern SD45 6464 leads an EX GN F45 at Minneapolis MN August 1970. The 6464 was built in January 1969 as CB&Q 523 and is wearing the "Proposed" Burlington Northern merger sc... (more)

NP 3617 remains parked with other museum equipment during June 2020 due to the COVID-19 shutdown of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. At least late afternoon sunlight permitted a glimpse of it pa... (more)

WC 6630 descends Byron Hill at Church Road on its last lap into Fond du Lac, WI from Chicago. The train will be re-classified at Shops Yard, North Fond du Lac with traffic branching out in a varie... (more)

By late 1970 things were pretty quite around the Minneapolis BN station. Only a handful of passenger trains made it to BN from its predecessors. I was wandering around the platform when all of a s... (more)