1st generation diesels power a pair of trains meeting on the BN at Galesburg. #6178, a CB&Q survivor, has a cut of baretables rolling as GP-10 #1419, from the GN stable, has train #45 on the move... (more)
Winterized SD9 3822 with one of SP's flangers. Later rebuilt as #4450, the unit has been preserved and currently on its way to the museum in Portola, CA.
One of SP's 2 boiler equipped passenger SD-9's pauses at the UP connection to the Niles Canyon Railway while being transferred from the Golden Gate RR museum to the it's new home at the Portola RR... (more)
One of SP's boiler equipped passenger SD9 eases train #116 around the curve at 7th St in San Francisco.
How Belt Railway's Clearing Yard diesel facility used to look ...
This unit has since been renumbered to BNSF 1711. UPDATE: this unit was originally CB&Q 333, then BN 6135, here BNSF 6135, then BNSF 1711, and the latest is that it is now BNSF 1551, and ... (more)
One of my best night shots in my humble opinion...the snow makes it all happen. When the lakes freeze, the C&NW would lease the DMIR locos.
BNSF 1725 awaits a crew to shuffle around some cars.
Still going strong, SD-9M works the north end of Atlanta's Inman Yard.
Two AWW SD9's load coal at Oakland City, sadly the railroad was finally taken control of by NS in early 2006 from what I've heard.
SD9's lugging 80 car coal trains on the ex-NYC in southern Indiana coal country in 2006? I'll take it! Sadly, this track, these engines, are no more from what I hear.
SD9M unit on display at the 50th Anniversary celebration at Inman Yard.
Sitting at the shops - SD9 1374 and TR4B 514