The Tunnel Motors were designed to keep units from overheating in tunnels and snowsheds like those on Donner Pass. The tunnel motor design was applied to 245 SP-SSW SD45T-2s and 239 SP-SSW and... (more)

Southern Pacific B36-7 7760 rests between assignments at Bedford Park , Illinois, on February 10, 1992. These high horsepower GEs, of 1980 and 1984, set the stage for even higher horsepower 4-ax... (more)

SP purchased in 1974, three GP40P-2s originally built for commuter service. In 1993 they were rebuilt and converted strictly for freight service by removing their steam generators. Originally bu... (more)

At the Waycross, Georgia shop on September 19 and 20, 1992, CSXT forces painted over the gray on the brand-new C40-8W No. 7812 for use on then President Bush's campaign train. The locomotive was ... (more)

Nickel Plate Road ordered twenty SD9 units in 1957, for use in the coalfields of the Nickel Plate's Wheeling District. These units were built without dynamic brakes, an unusual feature for the ... (more)

Built with C30-7 style carbodies, early C36-7s are typical of General Electric's locomotive modle evolution. The only visible external difference between these early C36 models and C30 models i... (more)

At Dallas Union Station AT&SF E3A #11 built in 1941 and two of the 1953 rebuilt E8M's 82A-83 arrived at Dallas on No.11 KANSAS CITIAN, at 7:50 am December 21, 1962, after a 1083 mile trip that ... (more)

A pair of PRR RS-3's units 8435 and 8597 bring a local freight into the west end of Brockway on the Erie to Williamsport Line, in September 1963. From my collection, Photo by R. Malinoski.

The 600-699 series were the first ATSF units delivered with Hi-Adhesion trucks. BNSF renumbered ATSF 666 to 599 on 06/30/02 (666 is a biblical reference to the Anti-Christ)

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway was the sole railroad to order this cabless GP60B model. Numbered 325-347, twenty-three units were delivered in Santa Fe's revived "Super-Fleet&quo... (more)

Santa Fe F7(A) 301, built in October 1949 and still in service on Amtrak in March 1973 at Fullerton, California.

Chesapeake & Ohio E7A 4514 arrived at Detroit's Union Station at 10:30am with train 14 the morning "Pere Marquette" from Grand Rapids. Later after its arrival, E7A 4514 is making a ba... (more)

CNR GMD FP9A 6503 built in 1954, dressed in CN's classic yellow, olive green and black, with F9B 6614 at CN's Windsor water front yard, with Detroit, Michigan across the river, on March 11, 19... (more)

Purchased by the N&W and leased to the Erie-Lackawanna were 19 EMD SDP45s. Upon return to the N&W, the Conrail name was painted out and a small "NW" was added below the cab numbers. Or... (more)

Alco RS-3's were re-engined with 12 cylinder EMD 567 power plants, and were known as RS-3m's or GP12's. They had a very distinctive three-stack manifold that was fabricated by MoPac at North Lit... (more)