Nevada Northern 401 is a rare locomotive indeed as she was the only SD7 ever purchased new by a shortline railroad. The 401 is still in her original paint scheme after all these years and will ho... (more)

Lonely MCR 37 awaits pickup in Mount Shasta. The unit was brought here in October to be taken away from the defunct operation along with two of 38s on the property. After struggling with brush and... (more)

A former SP geep with an intact light package awaits work at a mill south of Corvallis.

A rare ex-SP GP40P-2 rests between assignments in El Centro. This unit was built for commuter service in the Bay Area, but was kept around in freight service by SP and is one of two that UP still ... (more)

Looking a whole lot like an EMD SD45, Union Pacific MK Rail SD40M-2 No. 2680 awaits an assignment at Provo Yard on July 22, 2000. It was built Seaboard Coast Line SD45 No. 2027 by EMD in Sept. 197... (more)

Let it snow! Just after being re-assigned to CNW's Cleveland sales office, I ventured over to see the famous former NYC Collinwood facilities. I was rewarded with an eclectic group of pre-Conrail ... (more)

An experimental "Daylight" paint scheme A Roger Puta Photograph

Utah Transit Authority, 901, known as Snowflake, idles away, at the 4th South Yard, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Snowflake, is leased by UTA, to Union Pacific, for use in switching the 4th South Yard... (more)

One of only seven NW3s that EMD built, and as far as I know the only one left in revenue service, with an A.E. Staley log on its cab but now working for H.R. Ewell.

A Santa Fe Operation Life Saver Special makes a brief stop in Chillicothe Illinois on the ATSF main. The train ran from Chicago to Galesburg and returned to Chicago on this day in 1987, and fortun... (more)

An EMD test set consisting of a SDP40F, passenger test car, A-B F-unit set, and SD45 demonstrator are seen traversing the ICG mainline. Tom Golden photo.

Freshly painted for the failed SPSF merger SF 5401 was sitting at Santa Fe's Hobart yard diesel facility.

Amtrak leased a group of 15 GP40s from Helm Financial Corporation in the early 1990s. Engine 656 idles between assignments at the Rio Grande depot in Salt Lake City on March 1, 1992. It was built ... (more)

Nicely painted for Sweetwater switching company.

Sharp Paint Scheme

RAJX is the reporting mark for Rail Logix Alamo Junction of Elmendorf, Texas. RAJX "GP19-1" 1701 is a former Southern Pacific GP20. This locomotive rolled out of... (more)