On a gorgeous summer day, two true SD45's lug the local west.
CSX SD45 8926, former Seaboard System 8926.
The duo starts up the steep grade out of Livingston as another merchandise train pull up beside them.
With 28 cars well in tow, the dynamic duo swing around the curves at Springdale with a good run in store.
EMD's first production SD45, GN 400 Hustle Muscle, is moved at BNSF's Belknap Street engine facility in Superior. The SD45 is being moved to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. Amazingly,... (more)
Ripping through the bluffs along the Yellowstone River, this rare duo was doing every bit of track speed and broadcasted their arrival well before they came into sight.
A Portent of Things to Come Susquehanna power is visiting Delaware & Hudson’s East Binghamton engine terminal in this January 1988 view. In about five months, the D&H will declar... (more)
St. Croix Valley no. 1326, an SD45 painted in a color scheme that salutes the one time owner of their trackage, Northern Pacific Railway, holds the mainline just south of Hinckley, MN. Hinckley is... (more)
A Springfield Terminal SD45 has just emerged from the paint shop at Delaware & Hudson’s East Binghamton engine terminal. A lashup headed by a Susquehanna F45 occupies one of the tracks under the... (more)
In the middle of their climb up the steep pass, 40 cylinders of original EMD hit notch 8 as as they approached the crossing and words fail to adequately describe the experience.
40 cylinders grind it out into the setting sun as they approach Livingston.
Hearing all 40 cylinders wound up to get this train to track speed along a rising Yellowstone River was a wonderful sound... a rare sight in 2019!
Memorial Day weekend happenings at IRM from above.
Montana Rail Link’s gas local descends Evaro Hill near Nagos, Montana, and is crossing Indreland Road heading for Missoula on May 23, 2011. Rebuilt SD45 No. 3826 (rebuilt and labeled a SD45-2M) ... (more)
The last two surviving high short hood 45s storm east for East Deerfield Yard on a fine afternoon.
