C&IM, Chicago and Illinois Midland SD38 73, at Springfield, Illinois. June 12, 1991. Jack D Kuiphoff photo

DM&IR ISO 9002, SD38-2 is waiting in the yard at Steelton, Minnesota. April 16, 2000. Jack D Kuiphoff video © photo

A pair of IAIS standard cabs lead PESI north towards Bureau Junction.

A pair of IAIS standard cabs lead PESI west towards Silvis.

South Shore's pair of SD38's and a FURX GP40 lead NORX loads towards Michigan City.

Twin Eagle Sand power, south of Douglas.

For the first time in 4 years, IAIS 151 is on the point of a road train, seen here in Mineral, IL leading a PESI on a beautiful summer afternoon. In addition to it being 151's first run in 4 years... (more)

DM&IR SD38-2 212-SDM 316, leads a limestone train, at Keenan Junction, Minnesota. October 1, 2006. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

One of the two newly reactivated SD38s owned by the Iowa Interstate, drags 70 cars out of the Illinois River Valley bound for Silvis from Peoria.

After years of being go-to motive power for the Iowa Interstate, their SD38 fleet has been banished to storage lines and sheds for quite sometime. Similar to 2022, two of their four SD38s were pul... (more)

A remotely-operated SD38-2 pulls a string of empty hoppers underneath the Cumberland Mine Prep Plant's flood loader. The Cumberland Mine RR is a unique operation that is unencumbered by FRA overs... (more)

Cumberland Mine SD38-2 22, working a coal train (which is all it does) with CMYX 1, is former Yankeetown Docks 22. This operation is now owned by Iron Senergy.

Once the mined coal has ... (more)

EJ&E SD38-2 659 pulls a cut of cars into the small yard at Buffington Harbor.

It's a classic Elgin, Joliet & Eastern scene at the old J depot in Lake Zurich as SD38-2 #667 hustles a weed sprayer train north on a nice morning.

IHB SD38-2 3961 switches out the West end of Gibson Yard in Hammond.