Unknown photographer listed on slide, from my collection.

Great Northern SD9 576 at Minneapolis Junction August 1968. Built in February 1954 and became BN 6103 and BNSF 6103, finally retired in 2012. The 576 received Big Sky Blue in October 1967 and stil... (more)

A Southern Pacific local, heading east on Santa Ana Street in Anaheim, California, has come to an abrupt stop as it went into "emergency." The unscheduled stop will not take long before... (more)

J.D Heiskell's SD9 #50 with a train along side the BNSF main at Guernsey.

TXCR 6183 in the early morning at Sweetwater.

Located on the outskirts of the small community of Pixley, one of the J.D. Heiskell & Co. grain facilities stands tall against the sky on the flat floor of the Central Valley. As one drives by thi... (more)

A BN yard to yard transfer is returning to Gibson Yard in Omaha from Council Bluffs as it moves by UP's icehouse on the approach to the Missouri River Bridge.

DMIR 163 brings a loaded train of taconite thru Biwabik, MN in September of 1987. Only one track is left in this area now.

Portland & Western's first locomotive leads PNWR's very first train out of Newberg. The locomotives were winding up for the climb over Rex Hill.

Hamering up Bozeman
The canyon below Chestnut Mountain on Bozeman Pass is filled with the sounds of hard-working vintage EMDs pounding up the grade on July 2, 1994. A trio of SD9s, a SD... (more)

An extra Newberg Turn crests Rex Hill in January 1993 on the Newberg Branch. By the end of February, this traffic would be handled by Willamette & Pacific.

A quartet of former Reserve Mining SD9 locomotives sit in storage on the Escanaba & Lake Superior at Escanaba, MI in the company of a couple of baldwin roadswitchers. It does not appear they will ... (more)

DMIR 317, an SDM rebuilt from an SD9, idles at DMIR's Proctor engine facilities along with DMIR 418, a former Seaboard Coastline SD45-2 which has been rebuilt into an SD40-3.Missabe had two former... (more)

SP 4310 pulls out of Canyon Siding onto the SP main line to head west. Scanned from a color print.