The power for the "Diesel Days" freight train sits on the west wye.

UP's SP transfer job waits in the D yard to depart SP's Taylor yard back to UP's East Yard near downtown Los Angeles

power from UP's short lived Cima to San Pedro, CA ore train was laying over at Harbor Belt Lines yard in San Pedro while the ore train was being dumped nearby at the Port of LA bulk facility

Workmen load test an SD24 outside the shops. How they can hear each other talking is beyond me, because the sound of the notched-out 567 prime mover is deafening!

BN 6244 tries to stay ahead of a spring thunder storm as it hurries an eastbound freight along the Mississippi River at Alma, WI. The train was a daily freight operating between Dayton Bluff Yard,... (more)

The FRV spin-off of CNW lines in the Fox Valley of Wisconsin didn't have many C-C units and here are three of them preparing to make a set-out on train GBPRA at North Fond du Lac. SD24 2401 leads ... (more)

The pair of ex FRV SD24's that came to the WC often found themselves working in Upper Michigan. Late on a humid July evening the 2401 is has been swapped out with the 2402 for use on the Newberry ... (more)

These Ex Southern SD24's were bought by CNW through PNC and were rebuilt minus their turbo's effectively making them SD18's. They gave many years of good service in a variety of applications to th... (more)

Three Southern EMD SDs with SD24 #6302 leading bring southbound #117 through Greensboro in the summer of 1972.

The U.P. crew from Los Angeles climbs off the SD24 at Yermo and the relief crew will forward the train across the Mojave Desert, up and over Cima Hill to Las Vegas, Nev. Yermo is a run through l... (more)

A late-1970s view of the UP's Omaha Shops. Bob Zwiers photo.

A northbound Fox River Valley freight passes over the Fond du Lac River at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on March 25, 1990. The train has FRV’s two SD24s and the lone SD35 for power.

Union Pacific SD24 411 leads a GP20 and three SD40's westward through Meadow Valley wash near Elgin, Nevada on April 11, 1976. Crew change at Las Vegas is still some 100 miles ahead.