Late on the afternoon of June 29, 2016, Montana Rail Link’s Helena local, led by EMD SD45 No. 382, rolls through Lombard Canyon west of Lombard, Montana, with seven cars for Helena yard.

A westbound Southern Pacific freight train treads the long, elevated viaduct approach for MacArthur Bridge over the Mississippi River at East St. Louis, Illinois, in December 1984. Powering the tr... (more)

On the morning of April 24, 1988, an eastbound Santa Fe freight crosses the wide Mississippi River from Fort Madison, Iowa, into Illinois on an impressive multi-span deck and truss bridge built in... (more)

Photog Mike Bingen....from my collection....Thanks Mike.

Photog Mike Bingen.......a few corrections in photo at hand.....Thanks again Mike for the updates on the photo.

Under a stormy sky, Montana Rail Link’s Bozeman turn curves along the Yellowstone River leaving Columbus, Montana. MRL EMD SD45 No. 355 and SD40-2XR No. 252 power the westbound local on the aftern... (more)

On an April day long ago Conrail was just a budding entity, the prospects of which did not seem much more favorable than its predecessor lines. Traffic was always healthy out on the old Middle Di... (more)

Symbol freight PR-4 for Philadelphia comes booming down the valley through Lewistown Narrows on a summer afternoon. EMD, GE and Alco four and six axle power was prevalent at this time. That Centur... (more)

Reading SD45 7603 with GP30 3619 leading a freight train near Reading, PA in 1973. Unknown photographer, slide from my collection)

EMD workhorse SD45 in SP service at speed somewhere in Arizona

NYS&W 3624 and 3000 ( Alco C-430) lead the Utica and Mohawk Valley Chapter fall foliage excursion train. Shown here, passing northbound through Oxford, NY.

SD45's 40, 39 leads three SD40-2's 3513, 3464, 3522 on the remote Sharp Subdivision. It amazes me how Union Pacific, and Burlington Northern SD45's had relatively short life's. Yet Santa Fe, and ... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Northern Pacific SD45's numbered 3600-3629 built between 7/66 and 4/68. Twenty additional SD45 locomotives were ordered by NP as Nos. 3630-3649, but they were delivered after the BN merger and wer... (more)