Rock Island Rail GP38 #4373 leads a wind mill tower train north passed some Grain Elevators in Sumner, MS., bound for Vestas Transload Terminal in Clarksdale.

Rock Island Rail GP38 #4373 leads a wind mill tower train north through Sumner, MS., bound for Vestas Transload Terminal in Clarksdale.

A pair of East Penn GP38's lead a freight out of CSX's Wilsmere Yard in Greenville Delaware just north of Wilmington.

It appears the engineer may be climbing aboard to begin the run to Fayetteville (known pejoratively to some Vietnam era veterans as Fayettenam or Fatalburg). This is very early, very basic 38. P... (more)

GMSR at Bryson City , NC

MPRX 2810 a former Southern High Hood GP38 rests at Johnston's Elevator along the BNSF Transcon in Oklahoma.

Still at home, this former Clinchfield unit is sitting outside the former passenger depot. Even in those days oil bath air filters were rare on 38s. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.

Not only is TAG 80 one of the best looking diesels at TVRM, it also has a unique history. The locomotive was one of the first GP38s ever built and served as a demonstrator for EMD before going to ... (more)

RF01 prepares to depart Fuquay-Varina with an ex-CR GP38 leading.

Ex-Conrail now Hartwell GP38 No. 1973 sits tied down in Bowersville.

A former Chessie unit looking tired.

A former Chessie unit that just came in on train 214 in glorious stealth.

Example of a "tasteful" way to reletter and renumber upon merger. Ex-Chessie units got a lot of these nice modifications, ex-SBD, not so much. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collect... (more)

The dreary spring day of April 10, 1988, is brightened up by a Burlington Northern freight approaching the junction at Plum River near Savanna, Illinois. The eastbound train is powered by BN EMD G... (more)

Former Chesapeake & Ohio GP38 3862 and former Baltimore & Ohio GP40-2 4156 rest at Raleigh Yard in Beckley West Virginia on a sunny October day. The covered shanty with a coal stove would be small... (more)