On a sunny winter day, SP's Whiteson Flyer switches cars near McMinnville.

Not too many high nose locomotives were to be found in BNSF paint. This SD9 pulls a train from the classification bowl at Galesburg.

DMIR 161 bring a freight thru Fens, MN in September of 1987. Love those hi-hood SD-9's!

OMLX 4327 was built in 1955 for the Sothern Pacific and then worked for the Northwestern Pacific until acquired by OmniTRAX of Loveland, Colorado. She wears the "Black Widow" paint scheme of the ... (more)

BNSF 6145 and five other SD9s await their uncertain future at BNSF's Interbay roundhouse area. They wear various shades of BN green, and former BN 6122 still wears a BN logo. Joining the group is ... (more)

Originally built 45 years earlier specifically for assignment to Klamath Falls, a venerable SD9 switches cars on a summer evening. The BNSF 6126 was one of only two Great Northern SD9s with dynam... (more)

DM&IR 169 and 159 rests at the Biwabic service track.

Late on a fall afternoon, the Copic Local arrives at Worden siding on the Shasta Route with several cars for the grain elevator.

I counted five SD9s that day at Balmer Yard in Seattle. Pretty remarkable that these are still on property and at least one is working the Yard. This unit was built for the Colorado & Southern in ... (more)

DM&IR 158 assaults the steep grade out of Duluth as they head to the yard in Poctor, MN in May of 1992. The sound of 3 first gen SD's is intoxicating.

Out of Place

The only piece of equipment in the Nevada Northern enginehouse that really seems out of place--and gives away that it's not the 1950s--is SD9 #204. Left here by the BHP ... (more)

A collection of used and abused EMD products that have remained at Balmer Yard for sometime. The SD9s were originally kept near the military base but had been moved recently to the roundhouse area... (more)

BN "Cadillac" 6121 switches Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, MN in October of 1988 as a Soo Line freight passes overhead.

OMLX SD9 1751 stands at Attebury Grain's Saginaw, Texas plant soaking up the afternoon sun on May 15, 2017.

On the evening before pulling a 8 car ballast train for a photo freight shoot, Minnesota Transportation Museum locomotive 6234 dressed in Burlington Northern Railroad livery sits on the house trac... (more)