BNSF 3127 (GP50) pulls a string of autoracks past a satellite facility for Comcast Cable in Douglas County, north of Sedalia, Colorado.

A pair of fresh MoPac GP50s are seen moving engine-lite along the former C&EI. Tom Golden photo.

On a beautiful spring morning of June 7, 1992, an eastbound Burlington Northern intermodal train led by a pair of EMD GP50s crosses the Wisconsin River at Crawford east of Prairie du Chien, Wiscon... (more)

GP50 3850 and GP39-2 3676 were taken off a westbound to rescue a stalled eastbound at Bealville. Here the cavalcade emerges from Tunnel 5 into the rapidly fading evening light.

The GP50s were always trouble-prone. I remember a yard tour at Lynwood where we looked at one with a blown power assembly and our guide mentioned they were not working out well. By 2011 their numb... (more)

CNW 5099, the last GP50 delivered to C&NW is in showroom condition brightening up an otherwise dreary day at Altoona, WI on an eastbound train. With a builder's date of September 1980, this could ... (more)

After switching the industries in Willowbrook all night, the Y HOD302 heads home to GM Yard with a Cascade green GP50 leading the way.

HOD302 shoves into GM Yard with a classic pair of Santa Fe Bluebonnets.

A pair of Burlington Northern EMD GP50s sit in profile at the Clyde Yard locomotive facility in Cicero, Illinois, on January 26, 1991.

TP&W GP50 5010 leads a manifest which mostly consists of windmill parts west past the grain elevator in Weston.

Union Pacific GP50 renumbered from Missouri Pacific 3521 to UP 71 April 1988.

TP&W GP50 5010 leads a manifest west through downtown Chenoa. The front half of the train consisted of windmill parts.

Snow tiger
Leaving Glacier National Park in high winds and whipping snow on a frigid March 3, 1989, an eastbound Burlington Northern freight led by tiger-striped GP50 No. 3140 heads for... (more)

Y WSP931, an extra run to BRC's Clearing Yard, is exiting the BNSF Chillicothe Sub and entering IHB rails at McCook. A pair of Santa Fe Bluebonnets provide the power as the train crosses the Des P... (more)

In a high country snowstorm, an eastbound Burlington Northern freight has stopped at the end of double track to meet a westbound freight on March 3, 1988. Even though the wet snow and wind is maki... (more)