The only active SDP40F on the planet sees regular service hauling Rail Explorers' Railbikes and customers up the grade back to the museum in Boulder City, NV. The locomotive was built new by EMD ... (more)
612 leads two other SDP40Fs with the nb Floridian. The train was due in Montgomer in mid-morning and was - in my experience - rarely late.
I think the Mountaineer was one of those trains where Senators and Congressmen from along the route threw their weight around to establish/continue a service that might have been hard to justify b... (more)
Employees chat during the crew change at Montgomery. One of only two times that I saw four SDPs on Floridian. Guess they were ferrying SDPs to Florida.
In April 1976, Amtrak’s North Coast Hiawatha is seen departing Milwaukee with a pair of SDP40Fs in the lead. Original Slide. Ron Texter Photo. Sam Foster Collection.
Tom Golden photo.
The northbound Floridian kicks up dust as it speeds through Elmore, site of the junction with a branch to Wetumpka, the county seat. The tank cars - probably carrying chemicals needed by a local ... (more)
On a cold morning at the summit an eastbound freight storms up with a awesome quartet of unusual power.
On a crisp March morning, a former Amtrak SDP40F ATSF 5564(former Amtrak 632) rounds the horseshoe curve out of Esperanza in the Santa Ana Canyon hills on the San Bernardino Subdivision. Santa Fe ... (more)
Former Amtrak 644 / ATSF 5266 / BNSF 6976 decorated with red, white and blue lights for train excursions held over Fourth of July weekend rests under a full moon; Saturn and Jupiter are also visib... (more)
Santa Fe’s 881 train storms through Wilbern, Illinois, led by freshly-rebuilt EMD SDP40F No. 5261 on May 18, 1985.
The westbound Sunset Limited pauses at El Paso.
An eastbound Santa Fe freight nears the the summit of Cajon Pass.
With a pair of SDP40Fs on the point, Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight departs Seattle's King Street Station on its 1388-mile journey to Los Angeles. The building behind the rear of the train is... (more)
