Rio Grande SD45 5315 with eight smoking GP40's accelerates west of Grand Junction, at Loma Colorado on November 3, 1970, pulling a heavy westbound freight train as it climbs towards the desert... (more)

Harlowtown engine facility

Conrail COSY9, Columbus to Syracuse, approaches the old  Reynolds Road grade crossing in Mentor, Ohio, on December 29, 1978. Power is a Conrail blue SD45 and GP38, both of Penn Central heritage. ... (more)

Clyde yard engine facility

Eastbound BN approaches Clyde yard in Cicero

It's almost 48 years ago, the 45s were pure, loud gas hogs, glorious brutes. The ramshackle tower still stood, cabooses were required and the Kaiser ore train traversed the arid countryside with... (more)

Pulling a string of autoracks along the Union Pacific's Dolores Industrial Lead is Union Pacific SD45 (now dubbed an SD40M-2) 2664, along with a Union Pacific SD40-2. UP 2664 was built by EMD in ... (more)

An SECO7 (Selkirk to Columbus) cuts through the early morning air in Mentor Ohio on December 28, 1978. Power was an ex Penn Central SD45 and U25B with an ex Reading GP35 trailing. This train had a... (more)

Just released from the San Bernardino Shops are two locomotives wearing fresh paint: Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway SD45 5307 (ex-ATSF 5508, originally ATSF 1808) and SD40 5005 (ex-ATSF 1705)... (more)

USSC #6325 leads the Fort Pierce turn over the Miami Canal at Belle Glade, FL on the last day of March.

USSC #6325 leads the Fort Pierce turn over the St. Lucie Canal at Port Mayaca, FL on the last day of March.

When Utah Railway was return to having there own power. I think they were technically leased form Helm. Four cast off Southern Pacific SD45 bring a coal train down Gilluly. I we weren't very happy... (more)

Just another day at the office. A crew is working with a former EL unit. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

ATSF answered the need for hump power at their new yard in Barstow by creating the unique CRSD-20 combo, contrived by applying an EMD engine to a retired Alco RSD-15 Alligator. Geared very low, t... (more)

KMTX 2022 heads out of the soon to be closed Lyondell Basell Refinery on a cold morning in Pasadena with a load a coke for the Kinder Morgan Deepwater facility in Deer Park Texas.