EMD End Cab Switchers (No 30/60)
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Two CN jobs work the north end of Proctor Yard on September 7, 2021. Both sets of EMDs are moving here with the DMIR 212 pulling tanks from the "Bomb Plant" while IC 6264 backs into the stub track to tie up. The EMDs from the mid-70s look pretty good here, right after an evening shower passed through Proctor.
Rio Grande 3015, 3003, and 3007 pull 35 loads of coil and plate from nearby Geneva Steel at Lakota Junction, Utah the afternoon of Feb. 6, 1994. The various elements that make up the photo appear more like the 1960s than the 1990s.
Norfolk Southern Roadrailer train 258, powered by NS EMD GP60 No. 7115, passes through a deep cut of the Southern Railway’s upgraded “Rathole” line between Cincinnati and Chattanooga at Keno, Kentucky, on August 23, 1992.
East of Lehr, ND a solid DMVW road lash takes various empties for loading, passing some old field implements littered along the right of way.
Six EMD SD70MACs lead a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train west on Union Pacific‘s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision at Rollinsville, Colorado, on October 3, 2001. Before the train loaded with Utah coal heads east, the extra locomotives will be set up as mid and rear DPUs.
CSX local F752 led by an EMD SD70MAC pops out of a tree tunnel on the Andrews Sub at N. Charleston on its way to Bennett Yard.
A six-pack of Columbia Basin Railroad first generation EMDs lead a sizeable Connell turn toward the BNSF interchange at Connell. The power consists of CBRW 652, formerly an SD9 and one of only two units rebuilt by Montana Rail Link with components of various other locomotives into an SD19-1 as a result of a very short lived rebuild program, a former ATSF GP9u, and four chop nosed SD9s. Connell, WA
Continuing my walk from Snelling Avenue, I saw the UP transfer at East Minneapolis get a lineup when I was at Hamline Avenue. They got crossed over to the close main at St. Anthony for their trip down to St. Paul. Apparently the four snow-covered EMDs were the first to use this main since the snow the previous evening.
An assortment of classic EMD power, with one GEVO spoiler thrown in, are in charge on NS 37Q as they head through Lees Cross Roads on the Lurgan Branch. With the exception of the final two engines in the consist, everything here has since been rebuilt or retired.
Empty rack train Q210 eases through the siding at Howie on a gorgeous evening on CSX's Abbeville Subdivision. The trailing SD70AC was along for the ride as only the SD40-2 was online, making for some sweet EMD sounds as the train battled the rollercoaster-like profile of the former SAL line.
A trio of Forty variations lead freshly-baked Minntac pellets southward down the Missabe side, headed to Proctor Yard and ultimately the Duluth docks on Lake Superior. I would break off the chase below Alborn when I got a timely tip that SOO GP30 700 would lead a storage train move south from Two Harbors. Thank you Dave S and all the other birdies that helped on last year's Midwest jaunt.
Elephant-style EMDs fronted by a Warbonnet SD75M roll Clay Boswell coal empties through Hillsboro, ND.
This was a banner day by the rails all day. Shots I've already uploaded thus far are:
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A pair of mighty EMD widecabs hustle the daily Grand Forks "special" out of Big Lake in the last few moments of sun light.
The SD60Ms have split recently, both finding a pairing with an SD75, in this case, 1448 has found 252 as a partner.
With the weather getting colder, most trains are getting the GE treatment with DPs. But this shorter train was perfect for these two EMDs.
Would like to give my thanks and appreciation to Chris Laskowski who not only helped me get this train but also helped me with editing. He's the man!
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BNSF 1448 (blt 2/'91 as BN 9271)
BNSF 252 (blt 12/'95 as SF 8252)
Caught in between a pair of "failed" ex-Union Pacific SD90MAC Dynamic Brake hatches, Progress/EMD has a nice weekend power lineup left for those who shoot above the fence line. In all my visits here, this lineup almost made me feel like it was "open house" all over again! Kudos to the hostler.
On a cool and breezy late September morning, a pair of SD60Ms and a GP39 thunder out of Big Lake with a 9000-foot mixed freight headed to Northtown.
As of now, the 1448 & 1428 are the only SD60Ms in active service assigned to Northtown, with other favorites having left to other terminals or sitting in storage.
I've been lucky to shoot 1428 a few times, but this is my first crack at the 1448.
Fall colors are just starting to pop around here, according to the MN DNR, we're behind this year compared to 2020 & 2021. A recent frost might accelerate the change.
It's been a couple of years since I shot a train at this location, and the weeds have gotten terrible.
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BNSF 1448 (blt 2/91 as BN 9271)
BNSF 1428 (blt 1/91 as BN 9251)
BNSF 2602 (blt 6/64 as ATSF 1343)
+155 cars
Four EMDs of different varieties lead loads out of MinnTac at Mountain Iron toward Two Harbors. With the departure of the 403 you can't beat orange Bessy's on the ore trains and was glad to get the 169 bridge shot with the 909 leading.
With both of their EMD 16-710G3C prime movers screaming in Notch 8, BNSF 9194 & 8430 are leading a loaded coal train near Palmer Lake, CO.
A few units sit out in the backlot at EMD's LaGrange plant (which is actually located in McCook), my last stop before returning the rental car. The Windy City is barely visible on the horizon.
Although locomotives were once built here by the thousands, the plant has been downsized significantly in recent decades; it doesn't take a big leap of the imagination to think everything will move one day to the newer plant in Indiana, leaving the historic facility seen here to be only a memory.
I have no idea why the 1984-vintage CP unit was there.
The UP's Marsh Job, LBU52, backed up to pickup four covered hopper cars to haul out of the yard at Nidera from the Jones Island area in Milwaukee.
The EMD switcher SW8, built in March 1952, holds off to the side while the Marsh Job gets their work done.
STBX 210 (Former Colorado & Western 210)
UP 1158 (Former UP 1943, SSW 9644)
In June of 1993 after moving to Colorado I took a trip out along the Craig Branch and just before I arrived in Craig a loaded coal train passed me headed east. It was lead by EMD SD70M demo units. I managed more than a few shots as I followed back to Pburg where they changed crews and continued towards Denver. Seen here just east of Toponas headed for Egeria Canyon, 6.93
Southern Pacific GP60 No. 9770 leads a hot Denver, Colorado - Oakland, California Forwarder through Riverton, Utah the evening of May 20, 1994. Barely six months old at the time, 9770 is first in the last group of GP60s ever built, among the last production four-axle "geep". EMD produced 380 GP60 series units between 1985 and 1994, including 294 GP60s, 63 GP60Ms, and 23 GP60Bs. Southern Pacific had the largest roster by far at 195, delivered between 1987 and 1994.
A southbound (eastbound) Wisconsin Central freight led by WC F45 No. 6653, casts a silhouette against a sky still glowing with sunset south of Rugby, Wisconsin, on March 15, 1997.
After pausing a few miles east due to air issues, NS H68 blasts up the grade with three old EMDs leading a massive train for Reading. As most of the mainline scene around Allentown has become exclusively widecabs, H68 is the one train nearby that consistently uses nice older power.
A HŽ Cargo egyik EMD G26C mozdonya halad Kotor - Murakeresztúr között egy rakott szénvonattal.
An EMD G26C locomotive of HŽ Cargo runs between Kotor and Murakeresztúr with a loaded coal train.
Vintage EMD power leads BLU train T31 westbound over an elevated trestle on its final approach into Canton.
M MISLAU1 03A (MRL 4408) advances swiftly along the banks of the Missouri River it enters Lombard Canyon.
BNSF’s night gas local reflects onto the Clark Fork at 7:47 in the evening of April 30, 2025, between Dolan and Quinns, Montana.
IPPX No. 1 basks in the clear afternoon sunshine at the Intermountain Power Railcar Service Center in Springville, Utah the afternoon of June 7, 1985. The attractively painted SW1001 arrived from EMD with a multitude of options including an air conditioned cab.
Doug Harrop Photography • July 10, 1978
With eight EMD locomotives on the point, a UP Ogden to Salt Lake City manifest crosses from Main 1 into North Yard at CP 18th North in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The power transfer from Riverdale Yard includes an SD40, SD40, DD35, GP9, GP30, GP9, GP40, and GP9.
Soon after we gave up the day-long westbound chase of EMD SD60 demonstrator EMD-4 at Newburg, West Virginia, we watched an eastbound train headed by EMD-2 and EMD-1 roll into town.
An all-EMD locomotive consist powering an eastbound Union Pacific freight, climbs through Echo Canyon east of Echo, Utah, on September 26, 2006. Flared SD70M No. 4885 leads a SD40-2 and a SD70ACe past colorful cliffs dominating the scenery in the canyon.
Q511 rolls south at XN Tower on the Toledo Subdivision. The train is being led by one of the few remaining SD50's on CSX's roster.
CSX M434 runs north on the River Sub at Iona Island with CSX SD40-2 #8365 leading in some peak Fall color.
EMD's GM10B, built in August 1976, generated 10,000 hpwr.
There's plenty of info online about EMD's two electric demonstrators so I won't go into their history here.
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Looking the opposite direction from the previous photo from the same outcrop, sparkling clean DE33 020 and DE33 066 throttle upgrade after meeting the previous train at Ulugüney. This was a truly fantastic spot to spend the morning with heavy traffic and a great view in both directions.
Y197's power shoves a TBOX into the dock at Columbian Logistics' Warehouse. Columbian warehouses and handles everything from beer to salt to cigarettes. The CSX 2804, an ex Conrail GP38-2, today on this job was a welcome change from the normally assigned Dash 3 rebuilds.
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