A very dirty 9002 leads three C&NW GP50s - including Class Engine 5050 - with an eastbound train.
All 3 of Southerns GP40X`s lead 144 @ Chattanooga Tn
An interesting consist of a GP40X, SD40 and a GP60 leads 160 west into Louisville on a grey winter day.
It wasn't unusual for new SP power to pass through Silvis on it's way west. This GP40X caught my eye one day as I was headed home from work at the Silvis shop. I had my camera with me however the... (more)
In the early days of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad’s existence, it was often hard to tell that the Burlington Northern and the Santa Fe had merged. Such was the case on October 9, 1... (more)
One of the four SP GP-40X units lead an eastbound manifest.
Santa Fe tried many combinations of locomotives to pull it's York Canyon, NM to Kaiser Steel in Fontana, CA coal trains, often in solid sets. One of the last combos they used was six of their ten ... (more)
Union Pacific’s SD45’s always appealed to me, with their flared radiators and two-digit numbers in a fleet that numbered in the thousands. Unfortunately, they eluded me in my few visits to the... (more)
A 991 train roars upgrade toward tunnel 3 as it heads east through the valley east of the long bore. On the point is a GP40X, one of 10 Santa Fe took delivery of. The 991 was one of the hottest tr... (more)
Santa Fe GP40X No. 3807 leads an eastbound manifest near the west end of Cable on Tehachapi Pass. According to one engineer, these could be troublesome unit to run. Despite that, railfans liked th... (more)
A pair of Bluebonnets head west out of Hodgkins with Y HOD102.
Bluebonnet and H1 geeps rest in GM yard in Hodgkins.
TP&W's LaHarpe Local approaches the P&PU yard lead by a GP40X and a GP20. Note the experimental high adhesion trucks.
TPW 4056 and MMRR 2057 depart the Manistee yard for an all night adventure to Baldwin and return. The 4056 is new to MQT in the last few months.
Due to a bridge collapsed by flooding and ice floes, Saint Lawrence Quebec is detouring trains 394/393 over Quebec neighbor Central Maine & Quebec between Montreal and Lennoxville, Quebec. 394 is ... (more)