On March 1, 1989, a quartet of Oakway Leasing EMD SD60s power a Burlington Northern grain train over Montana’s Marias Pass. Marching westbound through Marias in a lightly falling snow on this fr... (more)

An Oakway Leasing EMD SD60 leads a mix of BN EMD and GE units downgrade with an empty coal train. Two fuel tenders to extend the range of the locomotives are coupled behind the diesels.

A busy day on the joint line sees two Oakway SD 60 led southbound coal loads awaiting a clear block.

Two Oakway Leasing EMD SD60 units sit westbound with coal empties just east of Grand Island, Nebraska.

Oakway SD60s 9043,9074 and C30-7s 5102,8155 at the head of a NCUX loaded coal train.

Oakway SD60 No. 9023 and a pair of CSX SD40-2s roar through the interlocker at Saginaw, TX, with a southbound BNSF manifest. Unlike other Oakway 60 at this time, the 9023 still has her "EMD" heral... (more)

Here I was lucky to get an Oakway on the point of a train, descending the upper horseshoe. Trailing units are SD40-2 7268, SF30C 9546, C30-7 5068 and SD40-2P KCS 616.

Sandhills SD60s
A Burlington Northern coal empty is westbound out of Ashby, Nebraska, heading for Alliance on a trip through the Sandhills on May 11, 1995. A trio of EMD SD60s power the ... (more)

Oakway Leasing 9021 crosses Spruce Mountain Road near Larkspur, CO on the Joint Line in June of 1989. As I recall, I was stranded in Kenosha Pass for a few hours due to 2" of hail from a T-st... (more)

Oakway SD60 leads a coal train east on Conrail's former NYC mainline east of BurnsHarbor, IN. This train would have been received off the BN in Chicago.

Oakway SD60 9004 leads a piggyback train west on the BNSF racetrack at Riverside IL on a crystal clear winter afternoon.

One hundred Oakway Leasing SD60’s were delivered in late 1986, and many were placen in service moving Powder River Basin coal. Here a Burlington Northern train of empty hoppers with two Oakways ... (more)

Four years after my previous submissions showing BN trains at Larkspur, Colorado, some six-month-old Oakway SD60’s lead a coal train over the same bridge.