A unit coal train train heads eastbound on the BNSF’s Big Horn Subdivision east of Verona, Wyoming, on June 14, 1997. Powering the train loaded with Powder River Basin coal is Oakway Leasing EMD SD60 No. 9087, a Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 and a pair of BN GE C30-7s.

Soo Line EMD SD60 No. 6057 leads an eastbound stack train through Kittredge east of Lenark, Illinois, on April 7, 1990. This location is at mile 114.9 on the former Milwaukee Road main line between Chicago and Savanna.

Powered by lone EMD SD60 No. 6067, Union Pacific’s short-lived Roadrailer departs the former Missouri Pacific Dolton intermodal yard on its trip from Chicago, Illinois, to Dallas, Texas, on December 3, 1988.

A pair of SD60 head into Superior from Duluth via the old Northern Pacific Ry Grassy Point drawbridge. To the right is the Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge that connects Duluth and Superior via U.S. Highway 2. The bridge's namesake, Richard Ira Bong, was a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II who was named the United States' all-time "Ace of Aces". Bong was born in Superior.

A Norfolk Southern stack train with an EMD SD60 leader crossing the Potomac River at Shepherdstown, WV.

A westbound Burlington Northern manifest starts down the west side of Marias Pass at Summit, MT on June 6, 1990 with two Oakways SD60's.

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Q train passes through a cut approaching O’Rea Road grade crossing while climbing Bozeman Pass near Hoppers, west of Livingston, Montana, on the afternoon of September 23, 2002. Powering the train is Oakway EMD SD60 No. 9084 and former Santa Fe EMD SD40-2 No. 6933.

Almost new, and the first of its class, Oakway Leasing EMD SD60 No. 9000 leads two sisters and a Burlington Northern GE C30-7 on a northbound BN coal empty at Palmer Lake on Colorado’s Joint Line on July 13, 1987.

Hotshot intermodal 213 flys over Wells Vaiduct in foggy north Georgia in the day's last light.

Soo 6016 and 6036 head east across the Mississippi River on the Camden Bridge in Minneapolis in March 2001.

Not sure why an employee scrawled GE in the dirt of the 6016. Maybe they liked the beaver AC4400CWs that were becoming common on the former Soo, maybe not.

Another loaded Herzog train is seen hauling out of the siding at Moosehead, crossing over the East Outlet behind CP SD60 6251 and CMQ 9020. Finding out that this was running as I was getting off work this morning made it an easy choice to detour over to Moosehead instead of heading home.

KCS SD60 724, leads rebuild SD40, and 2 SD40-2's on SB train #81, at Acorn, AR.

Shot was on 10-18-1997

Long a favored spot for eastbounds, it didn't disappoint today as 250 rounds the bottom of Moosehead Lake at Shadow Pond, about to pass the old Greenville station. CP SD60 6232 is leading CMQ 9017, dressed in Bangor & Aroostook heritage colors, and CP 6067 with a decent train, with stacks and racks up front.

Kicking up a nice cloud of snow behind it, 250 hammers down through Long Pond behind SD60 6232. I've been taking advantage of the frozen stream to trim up some of the brush that's been growing up along the tracks, and figured I might as well knock this shot off my to-do list at the same time.

CP ballast train 9WPA-11 takes the curve at Maple Lake on a beautiful spring day. A total of 5 foamers at this location for the SD60's. The train will meet an eastbound before starting to dump its ballast at the siding at South Haven.

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Canadian Pacific train 250 heads east through Long Pond, Maine as it cruises along the southern shore of Long Pond on former CMQ trackage. A pair of SD60's lead the charge on a perfect winter day along the Moosehead Subdivision.

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CP Moosehead Sub

Long Pond, ME

CP 250 (Manifest; Montreal, QC to Brownville Junction, ME)

CP 6232 SD60 Ex. SOO 6032 Blt. 1989

CP 6308 SD60-3 Ex. CP 6250 SD60, SOO 6050 Blt. 1989

The springtime sun is a bit filtered at Reeseville, as this Soo Line (CP) grain extra hustles eastbound with 7,600 horses leading the way in the form of a pair of Soo Line SD60's.

Grain Extra

SOO 6030,6024

Reeseville, WI.

May 1995

Three Canadian Pacific SD60's lead train 3GPS, an empty ballast train toward Humbolt Yard. The train is seen here crossing the Crow River in Rockford, MN.

With one of CP's SD60-3s leading, and a "partly sunny" forecast for Jackman (I should know better by now), I decided to head up to shoot 250 this morning. Naturally, the sun disappeared behind a wall of clouds a few miles outside of Jackman, and I never saw it again, but fortunately the bright red of CP 6308 pops nicely in overcast conditions. It's seen leading CMQ 9020 and CP 6024 eastbound at Long Pond, with forty-seven cars trailing, including a bunch of empty wells on the rear (hopefully to come west loaded).

On a glorious last day of January, CP 251 hustles up the hill out of Eastman with a trio of SD60's leading 95 cars. Consist : CP 6232, CP 6262, CP 6258.

UP LTA41 rolls through Dakota, Minnesota during an untimely visit by clouds with a rebuilt SD60 and a GP60 for power. The train will pace the mighty Mississippi on CP trackage rights up to Winona where UP has a small switching enclave.

An ex-SOO SD60 once again leads J37, the Northfield Job, across the Mississippi River at Robert Street.

Back in the day when CP ran stuff like this all the time, the one thing that I could just never seem to get good shots of were SOO SD60s. Now they're all rebuilt and repainted, and I'm annoyed with seeing one leading CP 250 for the third day in a row instead of barns or Pac-Mans. A fair punishment for stupidly ignoring the Moosehead until after the CP takeover, I suppose. This hobby can be relentless!

4 WATCO SD60’s help assist tidewater loads on the steep climb to Elmore, WV, seen here at Sweeneyburg, WV as they cross over the high bridge. We’re on the former Virginian P-D district, where 2 separate 1.9% ruling grades put on a good show for loaded trains climbing out of the valley from Deepwater, WV.

A fresh Alton & Southern painted SD62 rebuild 2204 leads UP southbound train MBNAS out of Bloomington with over 80 cars for St. Louis. We are just north of Funks Grove, IL on UP's Springfield Sub, a long distance from home for this sharply painted EMD. Fortunately somehow it escaped inner city transfer service and was able to stretch its legs over the Alton Route with a fellow UP SD60 vet, still in faded armor yellow, it in itself a sight to behold.

Funks Grove, IL

2023.07.04

UP LTA41 cruises up the former Milwaukee Road mainline towards Winona behind a rebuilt UP SD60 in the backdrop of Kings Bluff near Donehower, Minnesota. Lead engine #2198 was one of 85 EMD SD60s built for UP between 1986 and 1988; it was overhauled by both MEI and Jenks and is classified as an SD62E.

Oakway SD60 No. 9064 leads a westbound Burlington Northern unit grain train over ther top of Marias Pass at Summit, MT on June 2, 1990.

With a trio of Sd60's on point, Canadian Pacific's fifty nine car GPS ballast train, along with twenty two company cars on the headpin work upgrade towards Watertown with their eighty one loads on Wisconsin & Southern's Watertown Sub. With subsidies from the State of Wisconsin to rehab this line, one would think they would take better care of what our tax dollars did, but weed spraying must not be in the WATCO budget this year, with the new properties they are purchasing from the Canadian National.

CP 9WWA-2

CP 6304,6232,6308

Watertown, WI.

July 2, 2021

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Q train, powered by Oakway EMD SD60 No. 9084 and BNSF EMD SD40-2 No. 6933, slog up the grade of Bozeman Pass between Hoppers and Muir, Montana, on September 23, 2002.

L549 makes its way onto LS&I trackage with the trees just starting to turn for the autumn season.

CN L549 (Gladstone MI - Ishpeming, MI Turn)

CN 5469 (SD60)

CN 5408 (SD60)

Led by "fake" Susquehanna SD60 9014, CL-2 is seen lifting stone cars from the quarry in Jamesville. The power is sitting on top of the somewhat rickety looking trestle crossing Butternut Creek as the conductor knocks the brakes off. They'll add these cars to the headend of their train, then continue south for Cortland, with SY-1 shoving on the rear with SD45-2 3618.

The Canadian National L567 local shoves around the north leg of the wye as it backs its train into Keenan Yard in Keenan, Minnesota. The local has backed off of the Missabe Sub and on to the Keenan Sub, where it will work the yard before continuing north to Rainer.

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CN Keenan Sub

Keenan, MN

CN L56781-15 (Local; Proctor, MN to Rainer, MN)

CN 5485 SD60 Ex. GMTX 9090, EMDX 9090, OWY 9090 Blt. 1986

CN 5424 SD60 Ex. GMTX 9064, EMDX 9064, OWY 9064 Blt. 1986

IC 6264 SD40-3 Ex. IC 6147 SD40-2, IC 6756, BN 6756 Blt. 1976

CN 3268 ET44AC Blt. 2019

Heavy snow fills the air in Jackman, Maine as CP 250 begins its slow roll through the scanners operated by the US Border Patrol behind a trio of EMD's. The train had paused short of the checkpoint to allow for a crew change, where the Canadian crew was replaced by an American crew for the remainder of the trip east to Brownville Junction.

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CP Moosehead Subdivision

Jackman, ME

CP 250 (Manifest; Montreal, QC to Brownville Junction, ME)

CP 6232 SD60 Ex. SOO 6032 Blt. 1989

CP 6018 SD40-2 Blt. 1981

CP 6067 SD40-2 Blt. 1985

A quartet of Watco SD60's shove on the rear of KN33 at Sweeneysberg along the former Virginian Railway's PD District.

3882 limps the SIRI into Johnsonburg after developing issues at Boyer.

Lonnie Maves took a few quick photos in April 1993, as he guided the pair of Soo Line SD60's and train through the Reeseville Marsh. In this view, he is passing the 139 eastbound intermediate signal. In the distance, a Soo Line GP38-2 and some MOW trucks can be seen on the westbound main as the marsh fills with water.

Soo Line Eastbound

Reeseville, WI.

April 1993

Lonnie Maves photo,

D.A.Longley collection

A pair of New York, Susquehanna, and Western SD60's (3808 and 3802) make light work of RJ Corman MR25 as they roll into Auburn with 42 empties.

An SD60 takes ballast empties bound for Waterloo as they lean into the superelevated curve at Richwood, WI, after sitting at Dodge West for about an hour for an unknown reason.

A timely sucker hole illuminates the power on 9WMH-06 as they continue hauling out of the siding at Moosehead. CP 6251, a former Soo SD60, is leading CMQ 9020 with a forty car Herzog ballast train, with the intention of dumping rock between Moosehead and Jackman. Unfortunately, the 6251 would end up crapping out just west of Tarratine, eight miles west of here, and they would have to end up shoving back to Moosehead.

Judging by the turbulence in the clouds, a snowfall is on it's way. Canadian Pacific's eastbound coke train 804 will be long gone by the time the snowflakes start falling however, with it's pair of Soo Line SD60/SD60M locomotives leading out of Astico and into Reeseville.

CP 804

SOO 6035, 6061

Astico, WI.

December 11, 2015

Despite the choppy waters below, Canadian Pacific EMD SD60 6236 has train H88 well under control as she sails across the Mountsberg Reservoir in fading evening light.

A typical autumn sky makes sure the late day sun is muted, as Canadian Pacific's eastbound train 2-286 rushes into Watertown with a lone SD60-3 doing the honors this day.

CP Train 2-286

CP 6303

Watertown, WI.

Autumn 2020

After getting the light from the UP dispatcher, Canadian Pacific local H37 slowly rolls through downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota and heads across the Mississippi River on the Roberts Street Lift Bridge behind a pair of SD60's. The lift bridge, built in 1913, features a Pratt Through Truss vertical lift span that is approached by eight deck girder spans on the south end. UP is currently in the process of submitting applications and developing plans for the replacement of the structure.

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UP Albert Lea Sub

Saint Paul, MN

CP H37 (Local; Pig's Eye Yard - St. Paul, MN to Northfield, MN)

CP 6246 SD60 Ex. SOO 6046 Blt. 1989

CP 6232 SD60 Ex. SOO 6032 Blt. 1989

Denver & Rio Grande Western SD50 No. 5517 and Union Pacific SD60 No. 6010 meet on the downtown transfer in Provo, Utah the afternoon of March 29, 1987. EMD built 492 samples of the 3500 horsepower SD50 model between 1980 and 1987 and 1,144 of the 3800 horsepower SD60 between 1984 and 1995.

B&P train RISI is screaming up the grade in the remote area between Johnsonburg and Mt. Jewett with 3 SD60's and an SD40. the train could be heard for 15-20 minutes before showing up. This is some of the most remote land that I've seen in the eastern US. I was waiting here at Fritz Rd for over an hour without seeing even one vehicle.

Soo Line train 943 rattles the bay windows of the Brookfield depot on the afternoon of May 27, 1990. Candy-apple SD60 No. 6052 leads the westbound on this pleasant spring day in Wisconsin. Was this really 30 years ago?!

A pair of SD60's lead Canadian Pacific train 250 through Tarratine, Maine as it makes its trek across the Moosehead Sub on a clear and cold winter afternoon.

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CP Moosehead Sub

Tarratine, ME

CP 250 (Montreal, QC to Brownville Junction, ME)

CP 6232 SD60 Ex. SOO 6032 Blt. 1989

CP 6308 SD60-3 Ex. CP 6250 SD60, SOO 6050 Blt. 1989

Six Kanawha River Railroad SD60's lead a pair of NS GE's and coal empties for Quincy out of Jenny Gap Tunnel near Lester, WV.

A UP standard cab SD60 leads the Alton & Southern 102 job back to East St. Louis after doing about a hour of switching in the yard nearby.

I knew that A15 was on its way north but I wasn't sure of the power; decided to take a gamble on it and head to Mazeppa. Not too long after the train showed up and with an SD60-3 in the new beaver scheme leading the train, it was clear that my gamble was worth it.