If I had to choose my favorite EMD locomotives it might be these.

Head-end brakeman walking his train through the turnouts. Shot taken from the unique Steel Bridge (Google it). Note the slip and a half switch in the foreground.

Southern Pacific 4302, seen here leading a westbound around the famed Tehachapi Loop, is an SD9E, upgraded from SD9 3908 (originally 5430) - although, as noted by author Joe Strapac, the official ... (more)