CSX K841, unit molten sulfur train is southbound at Lineville, Alabama with the charming WC F45 Nº6656 leading in October of 2001. (Slide Scan)

A rather grimy Santa Fe 5983 passes through Hesperia as it leads a westbound manifest train up the eastern slope of Cajon Pass

At dusk during the “blue hour” just after an early season snowfall, Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 390 leads LM (Laurel to Missoula manifest freight) as it climbs the grade of Bozeman Pass at M... (more)

Quad 45’s

Two Santa Fe F45’s and two SD45-2’s guide a westbound pig train down the steep (3.3% grade) north track just west of Cajon Summit. Today, the location is called Sil... (more)

This former Santa Fe F45 is now repainted in Great Northern "Big Sky Blue" and repurposed as a luxury cabin at the Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, MT. The inn itself was built in 1939 by the Great Nort... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s MLAUMIS, also known as the LM, is heading through McQuarrie, Montana, on October 7, 2005. The westbound train operating from Laurel to Missoula is powered by MRL EMD F45 No. ... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe freight train climbs through Cajon Pass.

Hot summer afternoons at Binhamton swatting yellowjackets.

A rain storm has just cleared at Montana Rail Link’s “roundhouse” at Helena yard on October 8, 2005. Just off the turntable, EMD F45 No. 392 faces new SD70ACe No. 4300 in the last sun rays o... (more)

Former Wisconsin & Southern F45 No. 1002, now Montana Rail Link No. 392, leads a helper set into Helena, Montana, after pushing a train over Mullan Pass on July 4, 1994. Before a short life on WSO... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 390 leads LM (Laurel to Missoula manifest freight) approaching Greycliff, Montana, on the afternoon of October 3, 2005. The train will be treading through snow by the... (more)

Steam Scenes publisher, photographer Nils Huxtable made special arrangements with the Utah Railway. To have their F45 9013 leaded up the Canyon. He was kind enough to let my dad know of the arrang... (more)

In the low sun of May 19, 1995, northbound Wisconsin Central No. 45 roars down the main line at Byron, Wisconsin. Lead F45 No. 5959 has recently graduated from high-speed service across the west o... (more)

Wisconsin pastoral
Rolling through a bucolic Wisconsin scene north of Allenton is northbound Wisconsin Central train 45, with bright Santa Fe F45 No. 5959 leading the way across an empty... (more)

In what appears to be a power move, F45 No. 5936 leads an eastbound manifest through the sweeping curve at Martinez on the eastern slope of Cajon Pass.