The lighting is terrible but this is the last time I ever seen the Ex D&H Sharks in the light of day. They were being moved from the E&LS roundhouse at Wells to the building the E&LS was leasing/b... (more)

A pair of consecutively numbered EMD SD9s switch the west end of Rio Grande's Provo Yard. Both were acquired by the D&RGW from EMD in July 1957 and retired late in 1991.

BN 6107 switches the car ferry Incan Superior on a nice spring day. The ferry operated on Lake Superior between Thunder Bay, Ontario and Superior, Wisconsin usually hauling boxcars of newsprint bu... (more)

Locomotives congregate in Burlington Northern's (BNSF) Alliance, Nebraska shop for various repairs. A Burlington Northern SD9, BN and Santa Fe C30-7s, BN SD40-2s, and BN and BNSF SD70MACs are pict... (more)

This former Milwaukee Road SD9 is painted in a unique scheme to celebrate the 1993 centennial for the town of Oacoma located across the Missouri from Chamberlain. An Alco C420 and an SD7 join it.

A Montana Rail Link local switches an industry in Belgrade, Montana. On the point is a former Missabe SD9. The device shown on the left is a Lock Box for the switch off of the main for the industr... (more)

With ore cars full of steaming taconite, a southbound Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range train curves through Alborn, Minnesota, on September 25, 1994. The orange vertical stripes seen every four cars... (more)

Rio Grande's Provo Switcher returns from Geneva Works with a long train dolomite empties, coil steel, and coking coal. D&RGW 5314 was the Grande's last SD9 in a series of 10 units acquired from EM... (more)

The Utah Railway Company was power short in the late 1990s and turned to OmniTRAX for help. A pair of SD9s were leased for a short time, working as yard switchers. Here the OMLX 200 takes Christma... (more)

The final sunset of 1966 at Craig, Colo. where D&RGW "Yampa Valley" Train No. 9 with an ex-C&O round-end Obs car has arrived at the end of the line and will be turned by the crew off SD-9 5311, id... (more)

Happy 25th Anniversary MRL! It's hard to believe, but MRL has been running trains in this territory for longer than Burlington Northern did, and in the not so distant future, MRL itself will have ... (more)

The Grand Rapids Local accelerates after picking up orders at Saunders Tower.

This is the intimidating view you would have if you were about to crouch underneath a Montana Rail Link SD9. Here MRL no. 608 is in the Livingston, Montana, shop to receive some minor sheet metal ... (more)

While waiting for the two big storms to hit the area, I dug up this shot of an SD9 awaiting disposition. Others include GP28m 1507, GP9 1661, SW1000 3618, SD9 6146: where are they now?