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.

A Great Western Railway passenger special powered by GWR EMD SD9 No. 914 passes a farm between Johnstown and Officer Junction, Colorado, on April 1, 2003. Great Western business car No. 1, the “Ye... (more)

Norfolk and Western SD9 2349 was built as Nickel Plate Road 349, ultimatley becoming Norfolk Southern 52. It was repainted into N&W colors to honor the late Dale Elder, who was Bellevue's Terminal... (more)

Escanaba & Lake Superior SD9s nos. 1224 and 1220 rust away nose to nose at the shop facilities near the waterfront in Escanaba, MI. The units began life in December 1956 as RSMX 1220 and 1224, and... (more)

Burlington Northern SD9 6107 and SD9 6114 are seen switching Bridge Yard in downtown Duluth May 1975. SD7/9s were pretty uncommon for switching duties in Duluth on the BN. These six axle EMD roads... (more)

Great Northern SD9 573 and sister SD9 587 rest in the bitter cold at Belknap St. Roundhouse in Superior January 1969. The 573 has lived a full life since being built in February 1954 carrying 5 di... (more)

SP switch jobs layover early Thanksgiving morning in Roseburg during a rare eight inch snowfall.