Two 1966-built SD40s are pushing an eastbound freight up the old B&O mainline, with a Vesuvian plume of smoke emanating from the ex-WM unit, No. 7572.

With four big EMDs for power, an FWWR Cresson Turn, symboled FWCR, crosses the road into Ash Grove Cement just south of Tower 60. The lead SD40, FWWR 2023, started life as SP 8455.

A pair of Grand Trunk Western SD40s bring a cut of coil steel cars through Griffith Interlocking. Tom Golden photo.

DWP SD40s 5907 and 5904 show off their red, white and blue near the yard office at Virginia, MN on a less than stellar June afternoon. Although readily identifiable as a CN affiliate, the scheme w... (more)

CN 5141 and 5198 wait with three other SD40s at Boston Bar, BC for their next assignment.

A pair of Grand Trunk Western SD40s are seen traversing a maze of tracks off the GTW mainline in Harvey. The Illinois Central Gulf's elevated mainline between Chicago and Homewood can be seen in ... (more)

An eastbound Canadian National train passes Burlington Northern’s depot at Rochelle, Illinois, on May 6, 1995. Unfortunately, the station was demolished in December 2007.

A CNW SD40 leads a Union Pacific C30-7 on a westbound manifest freight on the Indiana Harbor Belt at Calumet Park Interlocking. Note the damage to the fuel tank on the CNW unit. Tom Golden photo... (more)

CNW 883 leads train 406 through nice fall color on its trip south from Spooner, WI to Altoona at Sarona. This was part of the mainline from Superior to Eau Claire and on to Chicago and is now aban... (more)

A northbound Burlington Northern train is entering home rail at Chemult, after a trip from Klamath Falls on Southern Pacific. The old station was bulldozed not long after this photo.

CNW SD40 879 is joined by SD40-2 6885, a pair of SD18s and a GP7 at Itasca Yard on Superior, Wisconsin's east end. This was CNW's northern most terminal (outside of upper Michigan) and a major con... (more)

The CNW came into Westminster Junction at the east end of the wye. Here, a westbound CNW train is traveling across the north leg of the wye to continue west. These former CGW SD40s have been re-... (more)

With an aging, ailing motive power fleet, Guilford scoured the used locomotive market for bargains. One source was the Detroit Edison fleet of SD40’s and U30C’s. The B&M got one of the GE’s,... (more)

Light W&LE power returns westbound between Philson and Mance, Pa. after utilizing CSX trackage rights to move a grain train from Connellsville to Hagerstown.