Only 23 GP40X's were built by EMD for customers, and Union Pacific purchased 6 of them with the experimental HT-B truck. Long bumped from mainline trains, 93 is here working on a ballast train as ... (more)

One of three GP40Xs on Norfolk Southern's roster, the class unit, leads NYS&W 258 east across the Hackensack River. This unit made several visits to New Jersey during the mid-90s on train 258 whi... (more)

A rare former Santa Fe GP40X switches out cars at the east end of Clyde Yard,

Lots of Flared-Radiators

Creeping to a stop in San Luis Obispo is an eastbound Southern Pacific freight, heading down California's coast from the Bay Area to Los Angeles. On the poi... (more)

A former Santa Fe GP40X prepares to tie up after working yard duties at BNSF's Cicero Yard. In the background a westbound coal train is seen passing East End Tower with the Chicago skyline looming... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

A veteran Bluebonnet GP40X drills stacks at Clyde Yard.

A rare bluebonnet GP40X switches the east end of Clyde Yard

The Saturday Relief Job has the most sought after Watson assigned engine in the lead this day, the one GP40X that I am aware of being in Southern California. Thank you to John Breen for the heads ... (more)

Due to a massive landslide that closed the D&RGW mainline at Thistle, the Rio Grande Zephyr's final run from Salt Lake City to Denver detoured via Union Pacific's Overland Route through Wyoming. W... (more)

The LSRC's predecessor Detroit & Mackinac was historically home to a fleet of Alco diesels. The LSRC carried on that tradition into the 2000s until the fleet (minus the 469) was scrapped in 2011. ... (more)

A welded rail train heads west on the Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern's former Pennsy main. The train was bound for the BNSF.

A TP&W GP40X and a CF&E SD40-2 lead a manifest east on the former Michigan Central in Gary Indiana

Bluebonnet 3033 brings a cut of stacks out of Clyde Yard, passing East End Tower.

A decent looking GP40X leads a merger mate on a shuttle for CHS on a beautiful, but somber day in Duluth. An hour after this train departed, Rices Point Yard ceased to have a Yardmaster. All dutie... (more)