Rolling amid the fall colors, an eastbound Conrail manifest approaches the Route 452 overpass at Union Furnace, Pennsylvania.

SOO 742 & 743 show off their newer Candy Apple Red colors while sister SD40 no. 747 wears its as delivered scheme at the former Milwaukee Road yard in Bensenville, IL. The original scheme was desi... (more)

Two Conrail SD40-2’s lead a westbound manifest into Rockville, Pennsylvania, on the east side of the Susquehanna River. Soon they will be crossing to the west side on the landmark Rockville brid... (more)

Conrail Train CIR-111, the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey’s Blue Unit circus train, passes through Lucknow, Pennsylvania after finishing an engagement in Philadelphia the night before.

Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey’s Blue Unit circus train moves west through Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A Conrail SD40 and an SD40-2 lead train CIR-111.

With engineers visible in the lead and third units, two SD40 head-end helpers and a pair of SD45’s pull a westbound Conrail train out of Altoona, Pennsylvania, about a mile east of Horseshoe Cur... (more)

The helpers on a westbound Conrail train of empty hoppers, an SD40 and an SD45-2, pass the brickyard west of Altoona, Pennsylvania.

The power lineup at Canadian Pacific’s engine facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario includes two SD40’s, an M636, an RS18, and an RS23.

A Chesapeake & Ohio SD40 leads an eastbound train of West Virginia coal past the depot at Tunnelton, West Virginia on Baltimore & Ohio’s St. Louis line.

A pair of SD40s (ATSF 5005 and 5013) stop to pick up some cars as the train heads east on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway’s Third District. Just behind the power is another locomotive be... (more)

Kansas City Southern SD40 3144 was found sitting in a deadline at the railroad’s Knoche Yard, along with a bunch of other surplus SD40s. KCS 3144 was built by GMD as CN 5085. When first acquir... (more)

The Portland-Seattle Vans has crested the grade near Encina, OR, but there are more ahead in the Blue Mountains for this quartet of SD40, 40-2s. CNW 6922, third out, was one of only two SD40-2s to... (more)

CSX Transportation 8467 may have "SD40-2" marked on the cab, but it was not built as such. This engine emerged from EMD's factory in McCook, Illinois, in February 1969 as an SD40, built... (more)

Tom Golden photo.