Built in 1960 as UP 701 today MG Rail 700 leads a cut of cars back to its yard after a CSX local had dropped cars off to it. Check out that one piece windshield.

A rare former Santa Fe GP20 sits at the Fort Smith Railroad Yard in Fort Smith Arkansas.

JLCX GP20 #2002 at a small transload facility north of San Angelo.

In 1989, the AT&SF sold its former TP&W line to a new TP&W corporation, including 19 GP20 locomotives in the deal. A TP&W train in the 1990's typically included a consist of well-worn GP20s, some... (more)

Palmetto train PX211 crossing Cainhoy Road

BN GP20 2020 hangs out with other Geeps and Fs next to the Harrison St. diesel locomotive service building built by GN not long before the BN 1970 merger. BN 2020 began life as GN 2020, built in N... (more)

WSOR 2001 leads train HM (Horicon-Milwaukee) thru Slinger , WI. in October of 2003.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Holiday Train north over the Causeway in Whitehall

PREX 2002 at Ft. Smith, AR.

A San Diego & Arizona Eastern freight arrives in San Ysidro (pronounced san ee-sidrow), near the border between the United States and México. Operated by Kyle Railway, the SD&AE operated ... (more)

Burlington Northern GP20 2047 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Chicago Burlington & Quincy 911 in February 1961. When the CB&Q merged with Great Northern, Northern Pacific a... (more)

BN 2017, former GN 2017 is an example of the first order of GN GP20s made in May 1960. They were set up to operate long hood front, and featured a bell over the front headlight. They also came wit... (more)

Union Pacific's local from East Los Angeles to Anaheim shoves a box car onto an industrial spur as it nears the end of the line on the Anaheim Branch. UP GP20 476, built as UP 706 in July 1960, i... (more)

Portrait in profile. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.

Union Pacific's local from East Los Angeles to Anaheim shoves a box car onto an industrial spur as it nears the end of the line on the Anaheim Branch. UP GP20 476, built as UP 706 in July 1960, i... (more)