After bringing a Salt Lake City to Provo manifest into the yard, UP's one and only high hood SD24 takes a break in the joint UP-Utah Railway car shop. The UP 448 was built as EMD demonstrator 5579... (more)

Month-old Santa Fe SD26 4659 rounds the Tehachapi Loop as it descends the crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains in southern California on June 23rd, 1973. Originally built as Santa Fe 959 in May 19... (more)

My favorite Southern Railway six-motor units were the SD24s. They were kind of overshadowed after the newer SD35s and SD45s started arriving, but these were the units that I identify with the "Rat... (more)

With a freshly blackened out SRY emblem on the nose two ex-Southern(CNO&TP) SD's move an eastbound towards Milwaukee Depot for the crew change.

Two ex CNO&TP SD24's pound through Wauwatosa,WI. on a Milwaukee Road extra west headed for the Twin Cities.

Extra east approaching North Avenue on the eastward track with Engineer Greg Rouleau at the throttle of three SOU SD24's about to drop down Brookfield hill into Elm Grove,WI..

A couple of rare birds power WC plow 315 at Trout Lake. SD24 2401 and SDL39 589 have had there work cut out for them coming down from Munising. After running around the wye the units back toward t... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD24 No. 446 sits with GE U30C No. 2927 on the west side of the North Platte Diesel Shop in July 1984. No. 446 was originally built as SD24 demonstrator No. 7201 dressed in South... (more)

PNC 6336 and others rest in the north lot of the Milwaukee Road's Diesel House area. The north and south lot were half way between the Cutoff and the diesel house.

After topping off the tanks with motion lotion at the fuel rack, overheard from the Engineer, "Did you check the air in the tires?" AT&SF SD-24 4566 is about to blast off from Belen, N.M. headed ... (more)

PNC 1817 testing on the Milwaukee Road with the Dyno car.

We're on eastbound Extra CNO&TP 6344 East stopped at Watertown,WI. to make a pickup off the C&NW Transfer track. We must have left our train west of the C&NW Interlocking and crossed over as the t... (more)

Santa Fe eastbound train 804 pauses for a crew change at Seligman, Arizona, on December 28, 1972, durning a brief snow squall. Locomotives on Extra 4551 East: 4551-4562-4530-9842 (SD24/SD24/SD24/R... (more)

CB&Q 504 and 9255 wait their next assignment at the Illinois Railway Museum.