CB&Q 504 spends the night on the main after being hand washed for Diesel Days.

Posing during a night of Diesel Days.

A northbound Fox River Valley train with an SD24/RSD15/SD35 lash-up rolls over the Fox River in Menasha, Wisconsin.

A Southern Railway SD24 leads an empty coal train north (railroad west) over US 23.

A Southern SD24 rides high on a timber trestle just south of Duffield, Virginia. The trestle transitions to steel as it crosses US Route 23, just a 2-lane at the time. (For a color view and an alt... (more)

A pair of SD24s sandwich an SD40-2 on an eastbound freight at Opelika. That GP in the background is power for the Lafayette branch.

Southern acquired a big batch of SD24s (48) in 1959/60, but they would have short lives, leaving the roster in 1978.

a set of UP power waiting to come out of diesel facility at UP East LA shop to get on an outbound train

UPs short lived Cima ore train is coming off the UP San Pedro branch empty headed into UP's East LA yard before leaving for Cima Hill and another load of ore.

The roundhouse and turntable combination was railroading's unique solution to servicing steam locomotives in a relatively small area. Even a large roundhouse, such as this example at Santa Fe Rai... (more)

In the last light of day PNC 1849,1844 lead 143 cars of a westbound extra about to cross the Milwaukee at Grand Crossing Tower.

After the WC bought the GBW/FRV the pair of SD24's from FRV found a home in Upper Michigan. Normally they prowled the ex DSS&A lines where they seemed well suited to muscling trains of pulpwood/fo... (more)

A pair of Southern EMD SDs, led by SD24 #2520, bring a southbound mixed freight through Whitley City, KY // September 1970

recently shopped and painted SD24 along with a slug mate hump power sitting at UP's East Los Angeles engine facility

westbound departing UP Cheyenne, WY yard