Southern Pacific Railroad SDP45 3207 was one of three SP SDP45s that received the "Kodachrome" paint scheme for the proposed Southern Pacific Santa Fe merger a few years earlier. The en... (more)

Purchased in the early 1960s to replace aging passenger power, Southern Pacific's SDP45s stayed in that service after Amtrak took over operating most of America's passenger trains. But after a de... (more)

Westbound at Hornell

North Daylight station stop at San Luis Obisbo

Daylights meet at San Luis Obispo

Southern Pacific train 129 departs San Francisco. Some more 70s photos https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/

An Erie Lackawanna train led by SDP45 3641 heads down grade into Scranton, Pa. along the Scranton expressway. This line was originally DL&W then E-L. Went to Conrail in 1976 then D&H to CP rail.... (more)

BN Pacific Zip With E-L SDP-45's Westbound from BN Clyde yard(Chicago area) 12-71

More efficient passenger power was needed as the PA's and E-units began to rack up the miles, and in the spring of 1967 the SP began taking delivery of ten new 3600 h.p. SDP45s from EMD (3200... (more)

In order to make fewer fuel stops, EL ordered locomotives with larger fuel tanks. The SDP45 was available from EMD as a passenger equipped unit like the ones for SP and GN but that was a way for E... (more)

BN SDP45 9858 sits alongside Dale St. Shops in St. Paul, MN, still wearing its passenger number. A close look indicates the unit has been sideswiped on the engineer side. There is some damage to t... (more)

Erie Lackawanna SDP45 3644 leads a westbound at Griffith IN, just east of Broad Street tower, in 1973.

BN 9859 (Passenger number), an SDP45, is seen in freight service at Minneapolis' Harrison St. roundhouse. With the creation of Amtrak, BN was quick to pull SDP40s & 45s off passenger trains and mo... (more)

Union Pacific "Quality Manifest" train 1-WCKC-Q-(K)-17 passes through the Hinda Crossovers as it heads east from West Colton CA to Kansas City KS. Still early after the UP's acquisition... (more)

A baretable train heads south on the Shasta Route, led by a former Erie Lackawanna SDP45 that had been remanufactured by Morrison-Knudsen.