FIRST QUARTER 2025: Diesel Era presents the first installment in a series featuring Electro-Motive Division’s iconic SD60. You’ll see Union Pacific’s first order of SD60s in this edition. Also, Ryan Drake shares photos of the newly repainted Santa Fe Dash 8-40BW 537 in Super Fleet colors. All this and more in the 1st Quarter 2025 issue of Diesel Era!

EMD SW1001: Part 3

EMD SW1001: Part 3

The third part in our series covering Electro-Motive’s SW1001, produced between September 1968 and June 1986.


EMD SD50: D&RGW 5501-5517

EMD SD50: D&RGW 5501-5517

Rio Grande purchased 17 SD50s from Electro-Motive Division in 1984 to augment its need for greater horsepower.


Bath & Hammondsport Alco Switcher Acquired by Museum

Bath & Hammondsport Alco Switcher Acquired by Museum

Retired Bath & Hammondsport Alco S-1 switcher No. 5 has been acquired by the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum.


Metro-North Railroad Debuts Third Wrapped Locomotive from Heritage Series

Metro-North Railroad Debuts Third Wrapped Locomotive from Heritage Series

The Metro-North wrap pays tribute to New York Central, the predecessor railroad that operated on the Hudson and Harlem lines.


Freight Car Classics: Conrail Boxcars

Freight Car Classics: Conrail Boxcars

A collection of classic Conrail boxcars inherited from six bankrupt railroads of the Northeast in 1976.


Rock Island GP40s

Rock Island GP40s

Information and images are currently sought in documenting Electro-Motive Division’s GP40 series


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