BN 6102 shows off its ore dust at the Superior roundhouse as the vintage SD9 waits for its engineer to walk by and climb aboard the attached Geep. Time to go to work on another ore transfer job mo... (more)

Southern Pacific's Weyerhaeuser Local heads west to switch industries in Springfield. By 1995, the days of the SD9s were coming to a close.

Here BN SD9 6119 gets some servicing work done alongside BN 139, an NW2 at Harrison St. roundhouse. That NW2 is nearly 20 years older than the 1958 era SD9. In 1971, both still had many miles to w... (more)

We all have our favorite loco and railroad. Mine would have to be GN 592, now BN 6119. I got acquainted with it in 1963 in Mora, MN where the crew of the Brook Park Turn stopped to give a 12 yr. o... (more)

Renumbered, but not repainted, a small group of former GN and Burlington power enjoy some summer sunlight at the former Great Northern roundhouse facilities. As the railroad completed revising Nor... (more)

Burlington Northern SD9 6103 resting at the Allouez Ore Yard in Superior WI June 1972. George Horna Photo from my Collection.

Norfolk And Western 2349 rests inside the Mad River and NKP Railroad Museum's coach yard in Bellevue, Ohio.

Embarking on another Candy Cane Express run, the sharp looking LLW 5399 leads another train of happy Christmas-spirited rides down the rails of the Santiam Branch.

The westbound Whiteson Flyer crosses the Willamette River on the Tillamook Branch. Although lead unit SP 4355 was retired a few months later, it lives on today as an industrial switcher at a wast... (more)

DMIR 156 leads an E&LS freight past the ex-Milwaukee Road depot in Iron Mountain, MI in June of 1987.

An old Ex-BN SD9 sitting in Brookfield, MO. This unit has since been donated to the town of Brookfield and is being put on display at a location across from the tracks.

Colorado & Southern 839 (MTM's BN 6234) crossing the Cedar Bend Drawbridge over the St. Croix River. Photo made possible by a S&B Productions photo charter and MTM's Osceola & St. Croix Valley Ra... (more)

Coupled up to the road power, 4450 was helping put an eastbound ready to leave Sparks

An extra Newberg Turn takes the connecting track from the Tillamook Branch to the Newberg Branch in January 1993. In less than two months, this traffic will be handled by the new Willamette & Paci... (more)

Portland & Western's first ever train crosses Rex Hill on a perfect summer morning. This train positioned locomotives for the startup of operations the following Monday. The scenic trackage had be... (more)