Earlier today, CN M338 had a gaggle of locomotives entering the yard in Dubuque, IA, but a number of issues came up that prevented the crew from using one of them as the new leader of the train. T... (more)

DM&IR 210-405-205, with a load of taconite headed to Duluth ore docks, at mp60 on the Missabe Division at Keenan, Minnesota. April 10, 2000. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

EJ&E SD38-2 663 leads CN L512 East through East Chicago.

With a trio of Bessemer & Lake Erie EMD's on the point led by SD38-2 878, CN U702 has entered CTC territory as it comes out of the RX siding in Albion, Pennsylvania and heads south with a loaded t... (more)

Bessemer and Lake Erie, B&LE 878- 858- 854- 869, is pulling cars off the interchange with the Norfolk Southern at Wallace Junction. Girard, Pennsylvania. October 21, 1999. Jack D Kuiphoff © pho... (more)

C&IM, Chicago and Illinois Midland SD38 73, at Springfield, Illinois. June 12, 1991. Jack D Kuiphoff photo

DM&IR ISO 9002, SD38-2 is waiting in the yard at Steelton, Minnesota. April 16, 2000. Jack D Kuiphoff video © photo

A pair of IAIS standard cabs lead PESI north towards Bureau Junction.

A pair of IAIS standard cabs lead PESI west towards Silvis.

South Shore's pair of SD38's and a FURX GP40 lead NORX loads towards Michigan City.

Twin Eagle Sand power, south of Douglas.

For the first time in 4 years, IAIS 151 is on the point of a road train, seen here in Mineral, IL leading a PESI on a beautiful summer afternoon. In addition to it being 151's first run in 4 years... (more)

DM&IR SD38-2 212-SDM 316, leads a limestone train, at Keenan Junction, Minnesota. October 1, 2006. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

One of the two newly reactivated SD38s owned by the Iowa Interstate, drags 70 cars out of the Illinois River Valley bound for Silvis from Peoria.

After years of being go-to motive power for the Iowa Interstate, their SD38 fleet has been banished to storage lines and sheds for quite sometime. Similar to 2022, two of their four SD38s were pul... (more)