Great Northern SD9 573 and sister SD9 587 rest in the bitter cold at Belknap St. Roundhouse in Superior January 1969. The 573 has lived a full life since being built in February 1954 carrying 5 di... (more)

SP switch jobs layover early Thanksgiving morning in Roseburg during a rare eight inch snowfall.

NKP #358 sits in the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society shop and is being restored to operating condition. This SD9 was one of twenty delivered to the NKP in either April or May of 1957 for u... (more)

Penn Central SD9's 6900-6924; former Pennsy 7600 series. PC 6904 and 6906 in yard and hump service, and SD9's seldom saw mainline freight work.

BN 6117, former Great Northern SD9 no. 590, sits at Brook Park, MN. The engineer is relaxing in the cab while the morning Badger arrives and lets off a couple passengers on its way to Duluth. In t... (more)

Things feel "just right" in this 2018 scene as a black-widow painted EMD SD9 sends up a plume of exhaust and the engineer brings the throttle back another notch as the Candy Cane Express... (more)

An eastbound passenger special crosses the Nehalem River in Oregon's Coast Range during fall 1991. The curve across the river marks the northernmost point reached by Southern Pacific.

An eastbound passenger special rolls along Nehalem Bay in fall 1991. The train would cross the Coast Range and terminate at Banks.

An eastbound POTB freight train crosses the large timber trestle over Oregon Highway 47 near Buxton. This trackage is now out of service.

A pair of former Southern Pacific Cadillacs work the Trask River Lumber spur. The Port of Tillamook Bay's industrial park is housed in a former WWII Naval Air Station that was a blimp base.

BN 6102 and GN 679, one of two passenger GP9s owned by Great Northern, wait for their crew at Superior, WI before going on an afternoon assignment. In September 1970 it was still possible to see n... (more)

BN 6102 shows off its ore dust at the Superior roundhouse as the vintage SD9 waits for its engineer to walk by and climb aboard the attached Geep. Time to go to work on another ore transfer job mo... (more)

Southern Pacific's Weyerhaeuser Local heads west to switch industries in Springfield. By 1995, the days of the SD9s were coming to a close.

Here BN SD9 6119 gets some servicing work done alongside BN 139, an NW2 at Harrison St. roundhouse. That NW2 is nearly 20 years older than the 1958 era SD9. In 1971, both still had many miles to w... (more)

We all have our favorite loco and railroad. Mine would have to be GN 592, now BN 6119. I got acquainted with it in 1963 in Mora, MN where the crew of the Brook Park Turn stopped to give a 12 yr. o... (more)