Northbound E&LS train to Channing breaks through the thick fog with the ex-Reserve Mining SD9s #1221 & 1224.

One of Missabe’s late-phase SD9s cruises toward the docks at Duluth at Zim, Minnesota, on September 25, 1994. Number 166 was built in 1959, and still carries the original paint scheme.

Northbound E&LS train to Channing heads through the northwoods of the Upper Peninsula with a pair of ex-Reserve Mining high hood SD9s.

Even in 1984 this was a rare lashup. Five first-generation SDs and GPs pulling a long mixed freight. The engine music was terrific!

Commuter Cadillacs! Both of SP's steam generator-equipped SD9s lead commute train #56. 4450 and 4451 were known as "Huff and Puff". I believe that's Tunnel #3 in background.

N&W lives on.

While searching for a suitable location to photograph the pending Rio Grande Zephyr, we spotted the Provo Switcher milling about in the former Salt Lake and Utah Railroad interchange yard called '... (more)

Southern Rwy SD9 #207 working at East Point, GA || August 1973

A pair of former CB&Q SD9s lead a nice looking SD45 south with the daily Superior-Northtown freight.

Built in 1957 as Nickel Plate Road 349, this SD9 later worked for Norfolk and Western as their number 2349, and finally became Norfolk Southern 52. NS donated it to the Mad River and NKP Railroad... (more)

A trio of AWW SD9's slowly pull their train through the Kendall Mine.

Some nice goodies at the museum in Bellevue, on a sunny afternoon!

Niles Canyon Railway's Southern Pacific SD9 #5472 with Business Car #121 drifting down hill from Sunol to Niles.

A GP38 assigned to Opelika works its local train as a lone SD9 flying green section following flags heads west on the main. By 1972, Southern's six SD9s and lone SD7 (all inherited from C of G) ... (more)

Modoc Northern #650 rests with sister #651 with the Tulelake water tower in view. This power has been on display since the MNRR ceased operations in 2009. For a short period of time, the road op... (more)