The clanging of the bell and swinging arm of the magnetic flagman proclaim the arrival of LMX 8530 bringing a westbound manifest through the Missouri River bottom lands at Camden, MO.
In June 1988, the Susquehanna took delivery of four new B40-8’s, intended to bump their increasingly trouble-prone C430’s off of their stack trains, which were the hottest trains on the Southe... (more)
Just over a year old, a pair of B40-8s leads a four-axle Geep on a stack train between Chicago and the West Coast. Tom Golden photo.
Cotton Belt 8054 is heading west thru Edwardsville, Kansas in March of 1995.
A St. Louis Southwestern B40-8 leads a Pueblo, Colorado to Roper (Salt Lake City), Utah manifest freight through Provo on Sept. 22, 1990. The SSW 8069 was built by GE for the Cotton Belt in Oct. 1... (more)
A beautiful fall afternoon greets the crew of train 3 as it cruises along Puget Sound at Carkeek Park with an unusual lashup of an LMX Dash 8 40B, MPI SD45 and B30-7A. Actually the unusual was sor... (more)
A friendly wave from the conductor as UP's West Colton, California to Pocatello, Idaho train gets underway at Provo Yard on July 15, 2000. On the point, a General Electric B40-8, built the St. Lou... (more)
Lipstick on a pig. LMX lease units were not the most beautiful locomotive to ever grace BN, but on the point of train 3, the red nose seemed to tie in with the intense light and fall colors as the... (more)
LMX 8595 switches the BN yard in Eola, IL in July of 1991.
This eastbound out of Needles is about a mile short of crossing the massive Colorado River Bridge and entering Arizona.
BNSF 580 leads a BNSF SD40-2 and a pair of UP SD40N's west toward 18th St Yard from UP's Neff Yard.
"Resting Easy" A former Conrail C39-8 rests in the back of the the New Hope & Ivyland shops awaiting to be repaired so it can once again return to service.
Brand new CNW C40-8 8509 departs Bill with empties for the coal fields in May of 1991.
The BN had a lot of lease power in the mid 90's, including LMX B39-8's and the nine ex-Reserve Mining SD38-2's on this manifest train.