The Friends of 261's recently-acquired Milwaukee Road E9A No. 32A made its debut during Train Days wearing a homage to the early CMStP&P E unit schemes.

Union Pacific A-B-A E9s power a UP OCS (office car special) westbound on the former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel Subdivision as they smoke it up fighting the constant grade and are approaching Tunnel ... (more)

While not pulled by the customary steam, this edition of the Denver Post Cheyenne Frontier Days Special looked pretty spectacular.

UP's E-units didn't make a lot of trips to Wisconsin, so you did what you could to shoot them when they did make an appearance, even if it was after the sun had set. Here they are westbound at Oak... (more)

UP E9 939 and sisters have been relegated to MOW service on this cold winter early 1970s day in Ogden, UT. Kodachrome, Photographer: Keith Ardinger, John E. Troxler Collection

Night photo session at St Paul Union Depot Train Days

The only surviving Daylight diesel sits nose to nose with ATSF 347C during the Worlds Strongest Man Tournament which is being held in Old Town Sacramento.

Two years to the date from its last appearance, almost, refurbished 32A stands at St Paul Union Depot. This is one of the road numbers it wore during its early career, but the paint was done to m... (more)

Recently acquired E9A of MILW lineage will join The Friends of the 261's fleet.

Milwaukee Road 32A is on display fresh from the paint booth in new 261 fleet-inspired colors, to match the passenger car fleet of the Friends of the 261. Historically, the locomotive was UP yel... (more)

Former Milwaukee Road E9 30-C, now Amtrak 406, slows to its station stop at Sturtevant, past the Klinkert Hotel, which was kiddy-corner from the Milwaukee Road station. The Klinkert dates to an e... (more)

Still hauling passengers as Electro-Motive Division intended, a trio of Burlington Northern E9A locomotives line up with commuter trains in the BN/Metra Hill Yard at Aurora, Illinois, on April 16,... (more)

For some time Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr, Nos. 5 and 6, made a stop in Cheyenne, WY on their route between Denver and Ogden. This necessitated a runaround move at Cheyenne, as the trains came i... (more)

The end of August '92 featured the last run of E-units in Chicagoland commuter service for the BN. Four of the last E-units on the roster are seen at Aurora awaiting their next move. Tom Golde... (more)

BN EMD E9A 9910 in the roads passenger colors waits along with its sisters for the next commuter rush to Chicago on a warm sunny fall day in 1979