An assortment of five Southern Pacific SD’s brings an eastbound train off of Cajon Pass on the Palmdale Cutoff at Dike.

SP 8487 East roars out of the Caliente Creek Narrows on a hot afternoon in August 1974. The steep hills surrounding the dug-in right of way are golden brown, but the trees flanking the Caliente Cr... (more)

Four SD9Es team up with an SD40 to lift a heavy SP manifest as it approaches the west switch of Marcel. Cut into the train is a four-unit helper.

I am in the cab of Milwaukee Road SD40-2 MILW 187, looking out at the various power in the diesel service area at the UP North Platte yard. It was quite an experience for my wife and I to get a V... (more)

On September 15, 1990, a southbound Kansas City Southern grain train departs Kansas City, Missouri, at Air Line Junction led by EMD SD40 No. 633.

As snow falls over the Tehachapi Mountains, an SP eastbound crosses over itself on the Loop. Up front is SD40 No. 8432, not one of the 10 40s equipped with extra ballast for increasing adhesion fo... (more)

A Soo Line SD40/SD40-2 duo leads D&H 266 into Oak Island Yard. During the mid-90s it was not uncommon to see Soo Line units mixed with CP and even D&H power on this train. In the distance, a bra... (more)

“HOoping It Up�
The operator at HO Tower hoops up orders to a westbound manifest at Hancock.
Locomotives:
(1) Chessie/C&O SD40-2 7558 (ex-C&O 7458)
(2) SCL/SBD GP40 6745, wi... (more)

2009 was a snowy winter. Due to fresh snow and poor road conditions, chasing this NBEC train was sketchy at best. Roughly 15 miles out of Gordon Yard in Moncton, train 403 heads West.

A Detroit Edison SD40 leads a pair of GE units on an empty coal train through Walbridge. Tom Bowers photo

What appears to be a seriously overpowered train likely dropped most of its cars at Montreal Yard (now called Taschereau Yard) and is bringing the piggyback and container cars to the Turcot Piggyb... (more)

Newly- instituted CP/D&H train 557 takes a few intermodal loads north through South Philadelphia. The first leg of its journey was on former PRR tracks – new territory for the CP as its new inte... (more)

The Reading and Chessie System had run-through services to Allentown, Pennsylvania in pre-Conrail days. Here a Chesapeake & Ohio SD40 waits for its return assignment at Bethlehem Engine Terminal.

Canadian National Railway SD40 #5170 and #5196 are waiting for departure in the Jasper station.

A Western Maryland SD40 is going solo up the Potomac Valley in the spring of 1981. No. 7570 was built as the WM 7470 in 1966.