Former MN&S SD39 #40 leads L1 southbound, north of New Auburn. They've just picked up a cut of loads at the Piranha Proppant Plant.

WN train L2 arrives New Auburn with PGR 40 and 41. They'll work the large Superior Silica Sands Plant here.

A well stocked Barstow yard in 2000.

Progressive Rail's no. 40 was captured sunning itself at Chippewa Falls, WI on the Wisconsin Northern. The spotless unit currently features a plaque honoring their relationship with CP. This unit,... (more)

A Southern Pacific train rolls through Colton.

Passing a watering hole for the local cattle, three relatively rare SD39’s pull a westbound train at Watrous, New Mexico.

With the evening sunlight shining against the overcast clouds, a BNSF light power moves through North Portal as it makes it way to Balmer Yard.

Just into the LA basin out of Cajon Pass. We stumble across this train with two of the rarest locomotives on the Santa Fe roster. ATSF 1569, SD39 one of twenty of the models. And ATSF 5257, SDF40... (more)

SP 5316 West roars past Stockton Tower with a GP9 as the second unit in the consist. In the 1970s, SP's SD39s did not often venture north of Fresno on the Valley Line, working Tehachapi and Cajon ... (more)

“Bravo·Foxtrot·Oscar·Alpha”
Running long hood forward, MEC SD39 693 is leading D&H BFOA eastbound, near the east end of Richmondville siding, in the mid-after... (more)

One of the three ex-Illinois Terminal SD39s purchased by the Guilford organization from the N&W for the Boston & Maine heads up an ex-Conrail GP40 and a native B&M GP40 on train POPY (Portland-Pot... (more)

Three Santa Fe SD39’s lead a 71-car westbound manifest through the eastbound semaphores at Wagon Mound, New Mexico. The westbound semaphore can be seen dropping from a clear to a stop indication... (more)

SD39 1567 leads SD45-2 5851, SD40-2 5168 and SD45-2 5844 on an eastbound.

Soo Line 6240 leads an interesting mix of locomotives down Lake Hill in Milwaukee, WI in March of 1987. The train is probably a Lake States train heading for home rails. The siding the northbound ... (more)