Dusk And Decrepit | As the DPU on a loaded coal train streaks past, night falls over the Tamora, NE grain elevator switching power on a cool Sunday, September 1, 2024 evening. To the left i... (more)

Bessemer and Lake Erie, B&LE 856- 847- 827-855, with a northbound coal train at Euclid Rd, Sherwin, Pennsylvania. October 29, 1990. Jack D Kuiphoff video

SCOX 5002 at Scoular Grain, Coolidge, KS.

After arriving to unload passengers and then loading the next group, the North Shore Scenic Railroad Bentleyville train sits under the Fitgers Brewery Complex almost ready to depart for the Tour o... (more)

EMD built 54 1,800 hp SD18 locomotives, built for Bessemer & Lake Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago & Illinois Midland, Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range, and Reserve Mining. They were constructed with ... (more)

Recently delivered SD18 to Mead, NE.

Led by Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range EMD SD18 No. 185, a Missabe taconite ore train rolls southbound toward the docks on Lake Superior just south of Iron Junction, Minnesota, on September 21, 1991.

DM&IR SD38-2 215 and SDM 193 pose for photos at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth.

DMIR 186 (rebuilt as a SD-M from a SD18) brings a loaded ore train across the Whiteface River near Kelsey, MN in September of 1987. This unit was saved and currently resides at a grain elevator in... (more)

Located alongside the Norfolk Southern yard in Mingo Junction, Ohio, HiCrush Sands operates a sand transloading facility to unload railcars and fill trucks. A former Indiana Midland Railroad SD18,... (more)

South Branch Valley Railroad 182 waits for more repair work to be done at their diesel shops in Moorefield, West Virginia. Photo taken with permission wearing all required safety gear.

WRIX 1229 sits outside the grain elevator in Bloomington Illinois while hazy wild fire skies settle in over the Midwest

DMIR 193 rests for the winter at LSRM, awaiting the start of the 2023 operating season.

DMIR 181 is one of 16 SD18s delivered to DM&IR in April 1960. These locomotives spelled the end of mainline steam on the railroad. EMD's SD series are among rail enthusiasts' favorite locomotives,... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD SD18 No. 6633 shows off its new paint job at the railroad’s Proviso Yard locomotive facility at Proviso, Illinois on the morning of March 15, 1992. C&NW acquired a gr... (more)