Haven't been out much lately, summertime is so busy, and it's too hot! A business trip yielded me 1 train at sunset last weekend. Here one of UP's new Tier 4 SD70's is a DP unit on a westbound hopper at sunset at the crossovers at CP 74 on the east side of Cedar Rapids.
Tier IV locomotives are the safest, cleanest, and most fuel efficient locomotives on the rails today. Unfortunately, most of them are ugly and are as quiet as an ACS-64.
The EMD SD (special duty) series are a strong and reliable kind of locomotive which still serve America's rails today. They have proved themselves reliable by clocking in several million miles of freight service over several decades.
