Oh how I miss these days. My favorite railroad, and my favorite locomotive type. "Santa Fe all the way!"

Something that just never happened. F45 9013 is on the headend of a coal train. In all it's years on the Utah Railway, 9013 basically served as a B unit. It spent most of it's time in the helper s... (more)

Heading to Syracuse out of Binghamton on a warm day.

Two big 20 cylinder EMD's with a load of logs for one of the many paper mills in the area. I think this run was called the "Nekoosa turn"

An Eastbound TOFC muscles up Cajon pass led by an F45 in the short-lived "Kodachrome" merger scheme.

The Delaware & Hudson engine facility in East Binghamton yard is hosting a cross-section of secondhand locomotives from diverse sources and in varied paint schemes. A Susquehanna F45 and SD45 fro... (more)

Santa Fe 5906 waits for clearance from the dispatcher to tie on to a stalled freight and help it eastbound up Cajon Pass.

Santa Fe 5967 winds through the curves at the east end of Rowan as it roars eastward up the heavy grade at Keene, CA. Note the 3-masted signal at left, which likely gives the engineer a heads-up a... (more)

Santa Fe 5967 East negotiates multiple reverse curves as it climbs out of Caliente, CA. The grade here is intense, and it will take all the tractive effort of this freight to head uphill as its ca... (more)

Santa Fe 5960 West attacks the eastern slope of Ash Hill. In a couple of miles, the train will reach what used to be known as "Squaw Summit." That's what SP called it when they built thi... (more)

Looking down a tangent with tunnel 3 at our backs, Santa Fe 5963 West roars around the corner with a hot piggyback train in tow. The cowl on the point dawns the red, yellow, and black paint scheme... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 391 leads ML (Missoula to Laurel manifest freight) over the Clark Fork bridge at Bonner, Montana, on September 2, 2003.

Wisconsin Central train No. 45 smokes its way through Ackerville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of May 19, 1995. WC just bought up a big batch of SD45s and a few other goodies from the Santa Fe, inc... (more)

Susquehanna power idles at the Binghamton engine house as a westbound manifest, probably train OIBU, approaches.

An eastbound bound for Chicago is about to cross the BNSF Aurora Sub at Savanna. The IMRL's only F45 leads the train. These train would runs from the yard at Nahant in Davenport to the BRC Clearin... (more)