On a beautiful spring morning of June 7, 1992, an eastbound Burlington Northern intermodal train led by a pair of EMD GP50s crosses the Wisconsin River at Crawford east of Prairie du Chien, Wiscon... (more)

GP50 3850 and GP39-2 3676 were taken off a westbound to rescue a stalled eastbound at Bealville. Here the cavalcade emerges from Tunnel 5 into the rapidly fading evening light.

The GP50s were always trouble-prone. I remember a yard tour at Lynwood where we looked at one with a blown power assembly and our guide mentioned they were not working out well. By 2011 their numb... (more)

CNW 5099, the last GP50 delivered to C&NW is in showroom condition brightening up an otherwise dreary day at Altoona, WI on an eastbound train. With a builder's date of September 1980, this could ... (more)

After switching the industries in Willowbrook all night, the Y HOD302 heads home to GM Yard with a Cascade green GP50 leading the way.

HOD302 shoves into GM Yard with a classic pair of Santa Fe Bluebonnets.

A pair of Burlington Northern EMD GP50s sit in profile at the Clyde Yard locomotive facility in Cicero, Illinois, on January 26, 1991.

TP&W GP50 5010 leads a manifest which mostly consists of windmill parts west past the grain elevator in Weston.

Union Pacific GP50 renumbered from Missouri Pacific 3521 to UP 71 April 1988.

TP&W GP50 5010 leads a manifest west through downtown Chenoa. The front half of the train consisted of windmill parts.

Snow tiger
Leaving Glacier National Park in high winds and whipping snow on a frigid March 3, 1989, an eastbound Burlington Northern freight led by tiger-striped GP50 No. 3140 heads for... (more)

Y WSP931, an extra run to BRC's Clearing Yard, is exiting the BNSF Chillicothe Sub and entering IHB rails at McCook. A pair of Santa Fe Bluebonnets provide the power as the train crosses the Des P... (more)

In a high country snowstorm, an eastbound Burlington Northern freight has stopped at the end of double track to meet a westbound freight on March 3, 1988. Even though the wet snow and wind is maki... (more)

A late summer P61 grinds its way out of the Yadkin River valley with ex-SOU GP50 7083 on the head end. At the time, this was one of three GP50s left on the active roster as the rest waited in line... (more)

UP GP50 983 and SP SD40T-2 8514 head west on Southern Pacific's Sunset Route.