A pair of Susquehanna SD45s, both in full Burlington Northern paint, pass Hawthrone station at Diamond Bridge Avenue with an eastbound ballast extra. 6521 would become NYS&W 3630. The warning be... (more)

A short SU-100 passes the Rochelle Park freight house behind SD45s 3620 and 6366. Rochelle Park station is just out of view to the right and had yet to be restored as the NYS&W Southern Division ... (more)

WC, Wisconsin Central SD45's 6607-5337-6541 leads a southbound ore train on the ex-Algoma Central at Hawk Junction, Ontario. September 23, 1995. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Erie Lackawanna 3607 on display at the National Museum of Transportation in Saint Louis, Missouri.

OAKRIDGE OR Oct 31 1978 — Southern Pacific SD45 8963, and its southbound mixed freight. are tied down in this central Oregon community. EMD built the unit (b/n 33660) in May 1968. It was rebuilt... (more)

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)