Three Seaboard System EMD units, front lead SD45 8936 ex-SCL nee ACL, SD40-2 8002 in Family Lines paint former L&N, and SD45-2 8978 ex-Clinchfield, E/B at Etowah, Tennessee.

Ex-PRR SD45 6113 heads an eight units lashup of GE and GM products with a westbound freight at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

WC SD45 7525 sits on display decorated for the holiday event at IRM.

Late in the day of October 11, 2018, a westbound Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad grain train approaches Medical Lake, Washington, powered by two former Montana Rail Link SD45s, Nos. 328 and 32... (more)

Running long-hood forward, a CNW SD45 and UP SD40-2 bring a merchandise train south through Blue Island toward the nearby IHB yard. Tom Golden photo.

I'll never forget the sound of this trio of V20 EMDs. We were on a roadtrip with my wife, having flown from Helsinki, Finland to SFO couple weeks earlier. One of my choices for the destinations t... (more)

Freshly restored NP 3617 leads a photo freight on its first run on the North Shore Scenic Railroad and passed Tom's Logging Camp on Minnesota's North Shore.

Eastbound DRGW train near Desert UT

A couple of Wisconsin Central SD45's head-up this CN grain train bound for Decatur, Illinois.

Rebuilt Buffalo & Pittsburgh SD45 452 leads the BFSI across Bird Swamp south of Machias.

Rebuilt Buffalo & Pittsburgh SD45 452 leads the BFSI by Lime Lake on the former PRR Buffalo Line.

Buffalo & Pittsburgh rebuilt SD45 452 leads the BFSI south on the former PRR Buffalo Line. The Buffalo-Salamanca train was running during daylight for a few weeks in September 2017 because of a tr... (more)

An extra BFSI departs Buffalo Creek Yard behind an SD45, an SD40T-2, an SD40, and an SD40-2. The first and third locomotives have been rebuilt to SD40-2 standards.

BNSF HKCKSPO is slowly entering the siding at Thompson Falls, Montana, to meet a train on October 1, 2014, with the head end of an eastbound BNSF coal empty already passing the west switch of the ... (more)

In the early 1970s, N&W power often ran through all the way to Oak Island on the Apollos and returned on other Buffalo trains. This is the only time my father saw six-axle N&W power on the LV. I... (more)