BN Pacific Zip With E-L SDP-45's Westbound from BN Clyde yard(Chicago area) 12-71

More efficient passenger power was needed as the PA's and E-units began to rack up the miles, and in the spring of 1967 the SP began taking delivery of ten new 3600 h.p. SDP45s from EMD (3200... (more)

In order to make fewer fuel stops, EL ordered locomotives with larger fuel tanks. The SDP45 was available from EMD as a passenger equipped unit like the ones for SP and GN but that was a way for E... (more)

BN SDP45 9858 sits alongside Dale St. Shops in St. Paul, MN, still wearing its passenger number. A close look indicates the unit has been sideswiped on the engineer side. There is some damage to t... (more)

Erie Lackawanna SDP45 3644 leads a westbound at Griffith IN, just east of Broad Street tower, in 1973.

BN 9859 (Passenger number), an SDP45, is seen in freight service at Minneapolis' Harrison St. roundhouse. With the creation of Amtrak, BN was quick to pull SDP40s & 45s off passenger trains and mo... (more)

Union Pacific "Quality Manifest" train 1-WCKC-Q-(K)-17 passes through the Hinda Crossovers as it heads east from West Colton CA to Kansas City KS. Still early after the UP's acquisition... (more)

A baretable train heads south on the Shasta Route, led by a former Erie Lackawanna SDP45 that had been remanufactured by Morrison-Knudsen.

BN 6599's head end brakeman inspects BN 8159 and its eastbound train as it enters double track just north of the Edmonds station at MP 18 along Puget Sound. This location was a bottleneck for BN a... (more)

EB DOT special, photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

Purchased by the N&W and leased to the Erie-Lackawanna were 19 EMD SDP45s. Upon return to the N&W, the Conrail name was painted out and a small "NW" was added below the cab numbers. Or... (more)

A decade or so out of passenger service, a quartet of Southern Pacific SDP45s, with SP 3206 facing the camera, have brought the Anaheim Hauler to town from West Colton. (Anaheim, California – M... (more)

GM’s Everywhere

There are GM automobiles as far as the eye can see in the open racks of a train approaching Tunnelhill, Pennsylvania at Bennington Curve. On the next track, Santa... (more)