This is the well known Kaiser Unit Coal Train, Rio Grande #769, operated jointly by the D&RGW and the Union Pacific. Both railroads used pooled SD45's exclusively on this train. It ran between the... (more)

After finishing up switching at the cement plant at Townsend, Montana Rail Link’s Helena switch heads for home on the morning of October 17, 2018. At this late date, it is pretty rare to see a l... (more)

Three Seaboard System EMD units, front lead SD45 8936 ex-SCL nee ACL, SD40-2 8002 in Family Lines paint former L&N, and SD45-2 8978 ex-Clinchfield, E/B at Etowah, Tennessee.

Ex-PRR SD45 6113 heads an eight units lashup of GE and GM products with a westbound freight at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

WC SD45 7525 sits on display decorated for the holiday event at IRM.

Late in the day of October 11, 2018, a westbound Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad grain train approaches Medical Lake, Washington, powered by two former Montana Rail Link SD45s, Nos. 328 and 32... (more)

Running long-hood forward, a CNW SD45 and UP SD40-2 bring a merchandise train south through Blue Island toward the nearby IHB yard. Tom Golden photo.

I'll never forget the sound of this trio of V20 EMDs. We were on a roadtrip with my wife, having flown from Helsinki, Finland to SFO couple weeks earlier. One of my choices for the destinations t... (more)

Freshly restored NP 3617 leads a photo freight on its first run on the North Shore Scenic Railroad and passed Tom's Logging Camp on Minnesota's North Shore.

Eastbound DRGW train near Desert UT

A couple of Wisconsin Central SD45's head-up this CN grain train bound for Decatur, Illinois.

Rebuilt Buffalo & Pittsburgh SD45 452 leads the BFSI across Bird Swamp south of Machias.

Rebuilt Buffalo & Pittsburgh SD45 452 leads the BFSI by Lime Lake on the former PRR Buffalo Line.

Buffalo & Pittsburgh rebuilt SD45 452 leads the BFSI south on the former PRR Buffalo Line. The Buffalo-Salamanca train was running during daylight for a few weeks in September 2017 because of a tr... (more)

An extra BFSI departs Buffalo Creek Yard behind an SD45, an SD40T-2, an SD40, and an SD40-2. The first and third locomotives have been rebuilt to SD40-2 standards.