Serious flashback for Central FL. This lil' critter has a long, storied history here, ironically going back 15 years....once the power for one of the MANY tourist train entities in Lake County, a... (more)

MPI 100, ex-AT&SF 560 H-12-44, working at Border Steel Canutillo, New Mexico. January 19, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

MPI 100, ex-AT&SF 560 H-12-44, working at Border Steel Canutillo, New Mexico. January 19, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

These were around for a while looking good and sounding almost as good as the ones with the real 20-cylinder 645s under the hood. I keep waiting for somebody to do an SD30. After all, parts is ju... (more)

MPI MP2000D model demonstrator locomotive at the BRC Clearing Yard in Chicago Illinois. Appeared to be enroute to the Wisconsin Southern Railway for trail and testing.

Unique: CSX Q300 features a one-of-a-kind locomotive as a leader as it charges east onto the Conrail Lehigh Line taking the siding at CP Port Reading Junction. Behind the leader is FURX 303... (more)

A wesbound BN train splits the semaphores on the fill just east of Sandpoint, ID at dusk.

MPEX 6201, the sole MP2000C in existence, sits coupled to a few other rarities on the long-term storage track outside Motive Power in Boise, as a major storm rolls into the area. MPI recently anno... (more)

Motive Power Industries MP2000C 6201 is on lease to the Pacific Harbor Line, a switching railroad that handles traffic in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. On August 4, 2006, MPEX 6201 was... (more)

A quartet of former MARC engines sit in storage awaiting an uncertain fate. These engines were purchased by MPI many years ago and have been sitting long enough for moss to start growing on them. ... (more)

Performing some testing on the Chicago Short Line, Motive Power Industries' MP2000D demonstrator is seen with a CSL EMD on a westbound coke train. Tom Golden photo.

A sharp looking MPI rebuild leads a trio of Southern Pacific EMDs on an eastbound coal train on the Indiana Harbor Belt. Tom Golden photo.

A well dressed quartet of blue and gold Motive Power Industries SD40M-2s pull a Utah Railway export coal train west through the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon on July 3, 1991.

A mix of Motive Power Industries and Utah Railway SD40s pull a Wattis Plateau to Intermountain Power coal train through the Kyune Gooseneck on Dec. 21, 1991.

A well dressed quartet of blue and gold Motive Power Industries SD40s pull a Utah Railway coal train into Provo Yard on July 9, 1991.