Oakway 9021 leads a southbound freight thru the S curve at Castle Rock, CO. in June of 1989.

Coal empties leave the yard bound for the Powder River Basin. Trailing units are SD40-2 7268, SF30C 9546, C30-7 5068 and SD402P KCS 616.

KCLX coal empties head downgrade round Breezy Point.

A loaded GRDX coal train climbs the hill.

Oakway Leasing 9021 approaches Palmer Lake, CO in June of 1989.

I am flummoxed as to where this shot was taken and will award the brass figlagee with bronze oakleaf palm to anyone who can provide some insight. My guess is somewhere around Fremont, NE or out we... (more)

BN leased 100 SD60s in 1986. The units were frequently seen on coal trains, although customarily in the company of other Oakway units or BN green SD40-2s and C30-7s. Yet here one of the Oakways l... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Q train passes through a cut approaching O’Rea Road grade crossing while climbing Bozeman Pass near Hoppers, west of Livingston, Montana, on the afternoo... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Q train, led by Oakway Leasing EMD SD60 No. 9084, has almost reached the top of Bozeman Pass as it slowly works through Muir, Montana, on the afternoon of ... (more)

Two Oakway Leasing EMD SD60s, along with a pair of Cascade green locomotives, pull a Burlington Northern coal train toward Belmont and the summit of Nebraska’s Crawford Hill on July 9, 1994.

An early indication of things to come was that Santa Fe GE unit trailing a more usual assortment of coal train power for BN. Oakway Leasing SD60s are followed by the striking Grinstein SD70MACs an... (more)

Almost new, and the first of its class, Oakway Leasing EMD SD60 No. 9000 leads two sisters and a Burlington Northern GE C30-7 on a northbound BN coal empty at Palmer Lake on Colorado’s Joint Lin... (more)

In the days when Power River coal traffic ran heavy, the lineup of empty sets waiting to move through Lincoln often had trains queued for many miles down the line. At Waverly, some 12 miles east o... (more)

Tom Golden photo.