GP40-2 with Flared Radiators!

Now that the power that brought Union Pacific local LOA32 to Santa Ana has cut off and run around the 9-car train, the more interesting locomotive ... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division constructed only three GP40P-2 locomotives, all for the Southern Pacific (SP 3197-3199) for use on their commuter trains on the San Francisco Peninsula. Two... (more)

Built for San Francisco commuter service, 7602 was one of just three GP40P-2s constructed by EMD. In 1994 the rare diesel was at the head of a northbound CSX freight, coupled to slightly less rar... (more)

FEC 905 with the For a Cure Susan Komen motor heads north with the New Smyrna Beach Haul. The 425 and 436 represent the Susan Komen organization supporting breast cancer research.

Hard working FEC 905 roars back northward

The IHB Unicorn. Indiana Harbor Belt 4010 does its best to blend in with the rest of the standard cabs at the IHB yard in Blue Island, Illinois, but is a unique unit. Built as Southern Paci... (more)

A rare GP40P-2 leads the IHB's Burns Harbor to Gibson transfer back to home rails.

IHB 4010 holds at Burnham Yard with a manifest.

IHB GP40P-2 4010 leads train 115 west on the Chicago Line in brilliant sunlight.

New Years Day 2020 finds this former SP unit at rest in IHB Blue Island Yard.

UP GP40P-2 at El Centro.

A westbound IHB transfer to Blue Island Yard crosses the diamonds with the old Missouri Pacific (UP Villa Grove Sub) at Dolton Junction. 4010 leads the charge, being one of only three GP40P-2's ev... (more)

My first train of the new decade is a westbound Indiana Harbor Belt transfer, led by GP40P-2 4010 and GP38-2 3801. The train is holding at CP 98 in Dolton, waiting for permission into Blue Island ... (more)

All is quiet and not much happening here on the first day of 2020 as various units sit around in the sun.