This crew is getting underway westbound on the tough Charleston & Western Carolina, but they have 18,000hp (three SCL SD45s and two Clinchfield SD45-2s) to ease their pain. I was led to understan... (more)

The 2019 edition of the Toys for Tots train crosses the Passaic River as it continues on to Hawthorne.

Three flares on the gas
Montana Rail Link’s night gas local departs Missoula, Montana, on the afternoon of September 18, 2006. Three SD45s up front lead the train out onto the main, w... (more)

"Toys Over the Ramapo"

"Season of Giving"

Great Northern "Hustle Muscle" leads DM&IR SD18 No. 193 on a train of empty tank cars for short term storage on the North Shore Scenic Railroad.

An SD45/SD35 duo is on the point of an eastbound Penn Central coal train at Cresson, PA, on a long summer evening.

Magical morning. As the sun was just beginning to rise and the fog lifts at 0550 on Friday, November 17, 2017, Southern Appalachia Railway Museum’s former Seaboard Coast Line SD45 2024 emerges o... (more)

MRL382 holds back the Missoula-Laurel Manifest early on a May Morning. Times change fast and the nationwide roster of 19060s EMD SD45 s is dwindling fast....

A westbound Montana Rail Link ballast empty heads up the Sixth Subdivision at Three Forks, Montana, on June 26, 2019. The trackside horse seems more interested in the SD45 than the photographer.

On a hot, muggy August day, Southern Pacific SD45R 7406 brings an intermodal train into Tucumcari, New Mexico. Tucumcari used to be the interchange between the SP and the Rock Island. When the R... (more)

The head end helper, a backwards-running SD45, has done its work as this westbound Penn Central freight with just a GP38 and a GP9 for road power drops downgrade between Gallitzen and Cresson, PA.... (more)

Santa Fe 5533 West storms past SP's yard late in the morning as it approaches the point where the Tehachapi grade starts in earnest.

One of the first eastbound trains on the Modoc Line after the SP/DRGW merger nears a crew change at Wendel, California.