Having tied on to the caboose in Altoona, a helper set of EMD (ex-EL) SD45 6085 & SD40-2 6369 are in run 8 as they keep a Westbound manifest freight moving up and over the summit of the Alleghenie... (more)

CNW 964 is ready for a crew change at CNW's Butler Yard in March of 1988. Once a busy terminal with trains to Green Bay, the Twin Cities, and the Twin Ports (plus numerous locals and extras), only... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD45 No. 346 has some work done in the running repair shop at the railroad’s Livingston Shop on May 7, 2012. MRL 346 was built by EMD in May 1970 as a high-nose Norfolk & Weste... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 49 passes WC intermodal train 219 in the yard at Waukesha, Wisconsin, on the morning of May 6, 1995. Both trains are powered by a pair of EMD SD45s, with lead locomotive in... (more)

The crew of Wisconsin Central train 219 poses with the train’s lead motor, recently-repainted WC EMD SD45 No. 6554, at Waukesha, Wisconsin, on May 6, 1995.

Down to metal
Wisconsin Central EMD SD45 No. 6554 is sandblasted down to bare metal before being painted in WC’s classy maroon and gold paint scheme at Shops Yard in North Fond du Lac... (more)

A Union Pacific eastbound train, operating on BNSF's San Bernardino Sub, with an eclectic mix of early merger power: Southern Pacific SD45R 7453 (ex-SP SD45 8887), Union Pacific SD40-2 3915 and a... (more)

Nearly at the summit.

Switching cars at Union Pacific's Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF), in Long Beach adjacent to their Dolores Yard, are UP SD40M-2 2664 (for all intents and purposes and SD45) and an SD... (more)

On April 17 of 1977, I was at Princeton Junction, NJ when this coal train (I presume empty, and I presume a coal train) came by making quite a racket. The second unit was an ex Jersey Central SD35... (more)

HEMAN OK May 15 1978 — ATSF SD45 5613 and three SD26s roll east with what appears to be an empty coal train. Next stop is Waynoka OK. EMD built the unit (s/n 35018) in May 1969, delivered it as ... (more)

HEMAN OK June 18 1979 — Santa Fe SD45 5605 heads west with train 138. EMD built the unit (s/n 35010) in May-June 1969, delivered it as an RCE Locotrol lead unit and painted in Bookends livery co... (more)

A westbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight train passes the Fullerton station behind SD45 5508 (ex-ATSF 1808), mated with an F45, an SD26 and another SD45. (Fullerton, California – ... (more)

Ex-SCL SD45 #2034, once converted to an SD40M-2, now rests on display atop the hill overlooking RJCC's operations center in Lexington, roughly the halfway point on the ex-L&N Old Road, previously ... (more)

SP 8982 waits to proceed West in the former Nickel Plate Road yard at Hobart Indiana in 1978.