During the annual sugar beet campaigns, Southern Pacific and California Northern interchanged trains to/from the Klamath Basin at Tehama, California. On this day, the CFNR crew has cut off their t... (more)
Heavy action on Sand Patch grade, with a westbound B&O SD40 helper passing an eastbound manifest's caboose. Note the intact pole lines on both sides of the tracks. No. 7597 was built in April of... (more)
I believe I was the one that parked this train out here east of Rudd? If I remember we bought the train down from Austin. Normally we leave it on the IANR, but this day we had to get it off the Io... (more)
MRL SD40s and SD45s are stored outside of their Livingston, MT shops on Memorial Day 2009. The units would continue in use for the next decade both on MRL and in lease to other carriers. The SD45 ... (more)
CNW 883 leads an SD45 and CR SD40-2 south on train 406 out of Spooner towards Altoona, WI. It's a beautiful fall day and the SD40 represents one of the early CNW orders which did not have the trad... (more)
Heading up Tehachapi Pass near Caliente in May of 1994.
IC 6056, ex GM&O 907, leads a southbound thru Tonti, IL.
SOO 749 has arrived from Shoreham Yard in Minneapolis on a chilly January morning and will drop to switch engine here at Irvine, have the train switched, then continue east toward Stevens Point, F... (more)
An NS eastbound departs the Decatur Yard on a blustery winter day.
A colorful combination of CNW SD40s are parked at the sand tower near the Altoona, WI roundhouse for servicing between assignments. SD40 891 is in its as delivered scheme, part of the first order ... (more)
Southbound Southern Railway freight led by SOU 3200 which is the highest numbered SD40 of the 29 on the roster.
Colorado & Southern a subsidiary of the CB&Q (Burlington Route), EMD SD40 No.875, 887 and 883 with SD9 No.835 near Denver, Colorado January 18, 1969. Photo from my collection, no photographer list... (more)
SOO 747 leads a freight on Conrail's Southern Tier near Browns Crossing in June of 1993. The semaphore was an added bonus.
A Roger Puta Photograph
Back in the day when SD40's roamed the KCS.
