The former SOU 3024, built in 1965, has certainly seen better days. After the Southern, it became the Fox River Valley Railroad #2500 before it was sent to the Wisconsin Central. It spent loyal ye... (more)

MRL701 heads a work train at Logan, MT. Built in 1965 for the Norfolk and Western Railway The old SD35 has never been a stranger to mountain grades. Originally used by the N&W and MRL in helper... (more)

Central Railroad of New Jersey SD35 2507 idles on one of the turntable tracks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This is possibly the first and only return to Bethlehem Engine Terminal for the 1965 EMD s... (more)

On a misty spring morning, a short Conrail freight behind a smoking SD35, a U25B, and a deadheading switcher rolls west through Wellesley Farms, MA, as an MBTA Framingham-Boston commuter train rec... (more)

FRVR 2500 leads a train eastbound (compass south) on the C&NW's New Line main from Milwaukee to Chicago. A SD35 and two SD24's make up the consist in a scene that has changed dramatically over the... (more)

It Must Have Been a Long Trip from Coxton

As an eastbound Conrail train approaches Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the crew looks ready to get off of the lead SD35. The... (more)

The summit of the Alleghenies is just a few miles away but there's still hard work to be done as an SD35/SD45 pusher set shoves on the rear of an eastbound Penn Central mixed freight at Cresson, P... (more)

Making what is probably its first appearance since the CNJ pulled out of Pennsylvania in 1972, Jersey Central SD35 2504 visits Bethlehem Engine Terminal.

Montana Rail Link SD35 704, ex-Norfolk & Western 1543. A Fred Wilson original Kodachrome slide, from my collection.

A trio of Montana Rail Link EMD SD35s power the day gas local eastbound approaching Perma, Montana, on October 6, 2005. Lead unit No. 703 is specially-painted with Operation Lifesaver graphics and... (more)

From an October 2005 visit to Montana three SD35s lead the Day Gas east at Perma. I was probably here to see 4449 but picked up this train as a very nice bonus. The backlighting worked well on th... (more)

Norfolk & Western SD35 1574 stands by the servicing facilities in Portsmouth, Ohio. Most second generation high hoods represented a small minority of the total production of their model, but N&W a... (more)

Few people shot the FRVR during its short tenure operating ex-CNW lines in Wisconsin. Fewer still shot the run-thru train south of Butler (Milwaukee) that went to Proviso Yard in Chicago. FRVR 250... (more)

GCK #7436 basks in the sunlight after a fresh coat of paint was applied at MEI in STL.