The U.P. crew from Los Angeles climbs off the SD24 at Yermo and the relief crew will forward the train across the Mojave Desert, up and over Cima Hill to Las Vegas, Nev. Yermo is a run through l... (more)

A late-1970s view of the UP's Omaha Shops. Bob Zwiers photo.

A northbound Fox River Valley freight passes over the Fond du Lac River at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on March 25, 1990. The train has FRV’s two SD24s and the lone SD35 for power.

Union Pacific SD24 411 leads a GP20 and three SD40's westward through Meadow Valley wash near Elgin, Nevada on April 11, 1976. Crew change at Las Vegas is still some 100 miles ahead.

CB&Q 504 spends the night on the main after being hand washed for Diesel Days.

Posing during a night of Diesel Days.

A northbound Fox River Valley train with an SD24/RSD15/SD35 lash-up rolls over the Fox River in Menasha, Wisconsin.

A Southern Railway SD24 leads an empty coal train north (railroad west) over US 23.

A Southern SD24 rides high on a timber trestle just south of Duffield, Virginia. The trestle transitions to steel as it crosses US Route 23, just a 2-lane at the time. (For a color view and an alt... (more)

A pair of SD24s sandwich an SD40-2 on an eastbound freight at Opelika. That GP in the background is power for the Lafayette branch.

Southern acquired a big batch of SD24s (48) in 1959/60, but they would have short lives, leaving the roster in 1978.

a set of UP power waiting to come out of diesel facility at UP East LA shop to get on an outbound train

UPs short lived Cima ore train is coming off the UP San Pedro branch empty headed into UP's East LA yard before leaving for Cima Hill and another load of ore.

The roundhouse and turntable combination was railroading's unique solution to servicing steam locomotives in a relatively small area. Even a large roundhouse, such as this example at Santa Fe Rai... (more)

In the last light of day PNC 1849,1844 lead 143 cars of a westbound extra about to cross the Milwaukee at Grand Crossing Tower.