BN 6607 and mate pick up a switcher at North La Crosse, WI. BN 6607 was formerly GN F45 No. 434, and shows off its fresh new paint. I could smell the fresh paint on this unit and suspect it was it... (more)

Switching F45 5930 at the old Barstow yard area

Santa Fe EMD F45 No. 5986 guides a freight through the swooping curve at Darling, Arizona, on September 15, 1992.

The westbound Marquette, IA, to Mason City, IA, freight train is at the bottom of Calmar Hill as they pass thru the "Fort." This train still has 69 miles back to Mason City. The 2 SRY SD38's trail... (more)

A very interesting leader is on eastbound BN intermodal train 28 just west of Browning. It can be safe to say this F45 ran over these tracks many times under BN ownership.

La Crosse in the summer usually has high humidity and the days often start out fairly foggy or just with a milky sky. This early morning shot of 6618, 8099, 8015 and 6446 leading 56 cars of train ... (more)

The Wisconsin and Southern’s Paint Facility in Horicon, Wisconsin, has just finished painting the first Wisconsin Central EMD F45 No. 6650. A contest was run internally on the railroad to come u... (more)

A Mason City to Marquette Turn passes MP 8 near Spook Cave. The last 14 miles on the IMRL 4th Sub between Monona and Marquette winds and crosses Blood Run Creek as they drop into the Mississippi R... (more)

A more or less uncommon angle of an eastbound intermodal at Summit after it thunders out of a thick fog led by a weathered "war wagon" cowl. The F45s were my favorite units to capture in Cajon ... (more)

A "Kodachrome" F45 leads a mixed freight up the north track for Sullivan's Curve on a crisp morning.

A Burlington Northern F45 rests at BN’s 31st Street roundhouse in April 1984. Showing signs of being “ridden hard and put away wet” so-to-speak, this locomotive, ordered by Great Northern bu... (more)

Blue cowls under a big sky
All three of Montana Rail Link's EMD F45s (390, 391 and 392; 393 was an IMRL unit at this point) are at Louisville, Montana, with train LM (Laurel to Missoula... (more)

So much has changed in this scene in the last 20 years. The all "yellowbonnet" lashups on priority trains largely disappeared with the arrival of the "Super Fleet" The wonderful cowl ATS&F F45s... (more)

After arriving at Escanaba short on time this ore train tied up with the power still on. The 6653 and 6522 only have about 60 cars in tow on this cold February afternoon. The most common power on ... (more)

The WC was kind of a disappointment to me at first, with patched SDL's, GP30's, GP35's and Ex BN "Green Weenie" SD45's, but once they managed to get their act together I felt it turned into one of... (more)