With threatening skies behind, SP 3207 in SPSF colors cuts out the swing helpers at Loma Linda before proceeding Westward.

One of UP's DD35 at Los Angeles. To develop a more powerful locomotive, EMD put two GP35's on a single frame to create a locomotive that develops 5000 horsepower.

CSX Transportation's Geometry train slides through East Point, Georgia while working across the A&WP/WofA Subdivision with the carrier's one and only GP40WH-2 model which is a dedicated unit for t... (more)

CSX Transportation's Geometry train slides through East Point, Georgia while working across the A&WP/WofA Subdivision with the carrier's one and only GP40WH-2 model which is a dedicated unit for t... (more)

CSX Transportation's Geometry train steps by CP Spring and the remains of Atlanta's Terminal Station while working across the A&WP/WofA Subdivision with the carrier's one and only GP40WH-2 model w... (more)

UP’s KCLA – Kansas City-Los Angeles manifest – was short-lived attempt by the railroad to avoid the congestion of its transcontinental main across Nebraska by running a daily Kansas City- Lo... (more)

The ill-fated CP 9300 pauses for the conductor to align some switches as it departs Thunder Bay with train 441. The CP 9300 and the three other SD90MAC-H IIs owned by CP were scrapped several year... (more)

Westbound departs Thunder Bay led by CP 9300.

A pair of SD40X's are used as hump power at North Platte's Bailey yard. Photo taken by James Claflin.

A pair of CITX SD40-2s are looking like new as testbed SD90MAC-H awaits some work at Mid-America Car.

CP train 441 departs Thunder Bay with SD90MAC-H CP 9300 leading. This unit was retired from normal service due to reliability issues just over a year after this picture was taken in 2005, despite ... (more)

ALCX 8534 poses in the P&L's yard at Louisville while awaiting interchange to CSX. Billing indicates the unit is headed from Paducah, KY to Derby, ME, so one could infer it is in route from Progre... (more)

Before production began on EMD's new line of 645-engine diesels, there were various test bed diesels constructed. Commonly called SD40X diesels (and, less commonly, SDX40s) by railfans, EMD simpl... (more)