Originally ATSF. Photographer unknown. From my collection.

A McCook to Los Angeles auto train has just passed an eastbound intermodal train near Dahinda on the Chilli Sub. Pair of blue and yellow charge west towards next crew change at Fort Madison, IA, i... (more)

A BN intermodal train heads east with a MK lease unit and a cabless B30-7AB.

Morrison-Knudsen rebuilt several locomotives with Swiss Sulzer prime movers in the late 1970’s, sending out demonstrators to attract potential buyers. One was this rebuild of former UP GP9 278. ... (more)

Tucked away in the Colorado & Wyoming’s small enginehouse in Pueblo, Colorado, is Morrison-Knudsen 44-ton diesel 84. (March 9, 2020)

An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.

A northbound Burlington Northern train is entering home rail at Chemult, after a trip from Klamath Falls on Southern Pacific. The old station was bulldozed not long after this photo.

The sun finally peeks thru the overcast ceiling as a westbound on the Montana Rail Link rolls somewhere east of Sandpoint.

MPI 9037 leads a westbound BN freight across the Skykomish River on the late 1960s line relocation made by Great Northern Railway between Index and Gold Bar, WA. This bridge was built as part of t... (more)

SD45 (SD40M-2) 9034 leads a BN double stack train on a slightly hazy morning near Milledgeville, IL in February of 1994. The train is on BN's C&I SUb.

A Morrison-Knudsen leased SD40-2 heads up a westbound BN stack train crossing Nason Creek trestle near Gaynor Tunnel just east of the east switch for Berne siding. Berne siding is just east of the... (more)

Obvious Heritage

MKMX SD45 5373 and Santa Fe SD40-2 5052 switch out some cars in Fullerton, California, on December 1st, 1997. The Morrison-Knudsen engine was built as ATSF 5621, an... (more)

MKM unit sticking it's nose out of Santa Fe's Barstow diesel shop.

When Santa Fe Railway sold off some power to Morrison-Knudsen in the 1990s, I dreaded finding these on trains as they were just not the same as a locomotive painted in full Santa Fe markings. But... (more)

Santa Fe Barstow shops