Jan 15, EMD “E9” Locomotives

The City of Denver was part of the UP’s City fleet running between Denver and Chicago. This particular train survived until Amtrak began service.

The SD9 was the six-axle version of its popular and successful GP9. It proved the bestselling first-generation road-switcher EMD cataloged.

Conrail, short for the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was a government creation to save the Northeastern rail network in the 1970s.