A pair of Southern EMD SDs, led by SD24 #2520, bring a southbound mixed freight through Whitley City, KY // September 1970

Ex-CB&Q SD24's head back to the house at Butler Yard after bringing in an FRV train from Green Bay,WI..

recently shopped and painted SD24 along with a slug mate hump power sitting at UP's East Los Angeles engine facility

westbound departing UP Cheyenne, WY yard

Southern's "big power" from 1959 to the arrival of SD35s in 1965 was its SD24s (not counting a few rare FM Trainmasters). One of the pioneer six-motor units poses at Louisville's Youngtown Yard. I... (more)

CBQ 504, SP 1518 and CNW 6847 make for quite a striking lineup as they sit, tied down after IRM's 2011 Diesel Days.

Southern SD24 #6309 running long hood forward leaving Spencer, NC || June 1971

Station at North Garden was still manned but was torn down sometime in 1968/69

Those tanks make the look.

North Platte was quite the happening place railroad wise in the 70's. Pool power from about everyone was all over the place. Most days it wasn't uncommon to see CNW, MILW, SLSF, BN, RI, IC, NW, WP... (more)

Actually owned or leased by Conagra, MMID is about the only lettering on this ex-BN, nee CB&Q dinosaur. The units were acquired by MMID in the mid 80s but apparently did not work out. It did no... (more)

The Diesel Days night photo session at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Westbound ATSF freight on the 3 % track with two rebuilt SD24, so called SD26