Interesting trucks on this unit. They are the old style. Note the "tabs" on the truck casting between the axles. These were more common on earlier 6-axle units.

Southwest Portland Cement Company EMD SDP35 No. 411 is running long hood first with a train from Victorville, California, operating back to the quarry as it approaches Stoddard Wells Road on March... (more)

Four SDP40Fs are on the headend of train 3, the westbound Southwest Limited, because this train is delivering new locomotive 587, built in May 1974, which will be assigned to Amtrak trains ... (more)

GARDEN CITY KS June 16 1979 — Amtrak SDP40f 505 leads the westbound Southwest Limited as the train slows for a station stop. I have no idea why the red headlight appears to be lighted. My photo.

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)

MNTX 325 is leading the Minnesota Transportation Museum's migration train through Marine on St. Croix.

On America’s 200th Birthday, Amtrak’s train 40, the eastbound Broadway Limited, departs downtown Chicago for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the train will be split, with one section co... (more)

My father took this picture of freshly painted BN Bicentennial SDP40 1976 in the Twin Cities in 1975. I recall that he had this photo enlarged into a color print so that I could take it to my kin... (more)

It was the Seventies. A time when one could pull into a service station and the attendant would fill your tank, check the air and oil, and wipe your windshield. And all for 39.9¢ per gall... (more)

Back in 1976 one could still enjoy the wide variety of motive power that Union Pacific operated. An example is UP 1400, the 10 SDP35 passenger locomotive UP acquired beginning in September 1965. T... (more)

A decade or so out of passenger service, a quartet of Southern Pacific SDP45s, with SP 3206 facing the camera, have brought the Anaheim Hauler to town from West Colton. (Anaheim, California – M... (more)

With a line of speeders behind it, former AMTK 644/ATSF 5266/BNSF 6976 (still wearing its special Maersk paint) sits as the first excursion of the day holds the main.

MTX 325 and 6234 sit on a siding in Osceola as the excursion train is in route to Marine on St. Croix.

In spring/summer 1973, a buddy and I made several trips from home in Auburn to Montgomery, hoping to see and shoot lots of models and paint schemes. In Auburn we got two SCL-powered trains a day ... (more)