Past and Future lead the Sunday 900 today. With the plans to apply the Grupo Mexico Transportes livery to the GEVO's we don't know the plans for the SD40-2's as yet.

We come for the trains...and stay for the people! "BellRail 1-24" as I call it, or officially known as the "Party Like It's 1979 Diesel Photo Event" at the Kentucky Steam Herit... (more)

L&N/Family Lines System C30-7 #7067, which has been cosmetically restored is seen sitting alongside Norfolk & Western (former NS) SD40-2 #6162 during a nighttime photoshoot at Kentucky Steam Herit... (more)

Some railroad past still alive…. For now…. The recognizable sound of an old school EMD SD40-2 horn can be heard echoing through America’s oldest city of St. Augustine, Florida. Florida Ea... (more)

NORMAN OK Oct 22 1980 — Santa Fe SD40-2 5062 and a U-boat lead train 445 over the Lindsay Street crossing and past the City of Norman Street Department facility. Has Norman ever decided if the s... (more)

ALRAY CA Sept 7 1983 — A TOFC-COFC train is led by ATSF SD40-2 5207 on its uphill journey in Cajon Pass. EMD delivered the unit (s/n 786153-8) in October 1978 painted in blue body with yellow wa... (more)

Exiting out of the spiral tunnel CP 5802, 5828, 6647. At a time when the SD40-2's reign over the Canadian Pacific roster was coming to an end. (Tom Ellis photo)

CN 6255 waits for permission to leave United Taconite and head south to Proctor, MN with a taconite train headed for the Duluth ore dock.

CNW 6867 leads a freight across Pike Creek near Somers, WI in January of 1989. The train is on CNW's New Line.

OKLAHOMA CITY OK Oct 16 1983 — Santa FE SD40-2 5131 and SD45-2 5685 roll south on train 185. EMD delivered the unit (s/n 796396-4) in December 1980 as an RCE Locotrol remote locomotive with two ... (more)

BLUE CUT CA Sept 6 1983 — What at first glance seems to be a light engine movement is in actuality a bare tables train with ATSF SD40-2 5172 in the lead. Also in consist are C30-7 8096 and SD45 ... (more)

Lehigh Hanson has acquired two former Missouri Pacific SD40-2s (UP 4279, previously MP 4279 and originally MP 3279) and 4297, (UP 4297, previously MP B4297 and originally MP 3297) to operate their... (more)

VAUGHN NM Sept 25 1988 — Santa Fe SD40-2 5149 and SD45u 5346 pull a TOFC train past the station on the way east to Clovis NM. EMD delivered the unit (s/n 796386-9) in October 1980 in blue body w... (more)

L022 arriving hudson lite power

A trio of Ohio Central SD40-2's, all in former UP paint, pull the NKPA under Leonard Ave as approaches Columbus, Ohio. The train will hold for clearance over NS and CSX through downtown to reach i... (more)