Ex-EL 3638 SDP45, one of two Erie Lackawanna locomotives to wear a Bicentennial paint scheme, stenciled and renumbered CR 6669 SD45, is seen on a bitterly cold winter day.
Not often does one get a clear rear view of GN's Big Sky Blue scheme on an SDP45. BN 9863 shows off the simple wrap around striping and the rather plain rear nose that housed the steam generator w... (more)
BN is one month old, and life at St. Paul Union Depot still feels like the Great Northern era. Amtrak has yet to arrive, so GN's newest passenger power, SDP45 no. 332 still mates up with older F u... (more)
Westbound Erie Lackawanna TOFC/COFC train led by four SDP45's at Akron, Ohio in July 1975. No photographer listed on slide.
BN EMD SDP45 6597 ex-Great Northern 331.
Having recently returned from Amtrak service, all the SDP45 locomotives were being assigned to the commute pool allowing the retirement of the last of the FM Train Masters. ... (more)
Griffith Junction in 1975. View west. Note the waiting five (5) man crew.
No longer pulling the Big Sky Blue Empire Builder, BN 6596, (x-GN 330), finds its new life in hauling freight. Here it is picutred with a U33C at BN's Seattle Interbay locomotive facilities in bet... (more)
Still in its Erie-Lackawanna heritage colors but having received Conrail stenciling, CR 6688 was erroneously listed in Conrail's initial locomotive roster as an SDP45.
The western limit of the Pennsy catenary has slowly crept east since this shot. An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.
With more than enough power to accelerate its short commuter train, Southern Pacific SDP45 3208 prepares to depart San Francisco for San Jose on a spring afternoon. In passenger service SP locomot... (more)
One of the three SP SDP45s that received the SPSF "Kodachrome" paint scheme lays over at Ashland.
Chicago Central had 8 SDP45 on lease for 3 month's. Pulling out the sag from Buffalo creek the SDP45's and one SD45-2 are in 8.
Loads grinding along trying to gain speed on the down hill parts of the run.
