NREX's shop switcher, a vintage SW1, idles away in Dixmoor.

While running around the Port of Milwaukee at 6:30am waiting for a ship to arrive for winter layup I managed to come across Nidera Grain's Alco S2 switcher parked at the end of the yard. Very rar... (more)

CNW 1281 and 1280, the railroad's only SW600s idle at Eau Claire between switching duties. These were the only two of their type on CNW and were EMD's catalog replacement for the 600 hp SW1 from a... (more)

CLCX 14136, an elder EMD made SW8, sits at the small Pickens Railway yard located in Gluck, South Carolina just south of Anderson, SC on a very much so comfortable autumn night. Notable damage can... (more)

New Hope and Ivyland's SW1 #9423, date unknown. Built by EMD for the PRR in 1950, #9423 survived into the Penn Central merger in 1968 and was renumbered 8523, and then later as Amtrak #'s 252 and... (more)

Anthracite Railway operated several excursions while it was the operator of the northern portion of the ex-Reading Perkiomen branch. Here is one of those excursions, with their ex-Amtrak SW1 in ch... (more)

MRS switch unit sitting at MRS facility St Louis

BR&W oil-electric shunter #1, built in 1927, ex-Bigelow Carpet, nee Crucible Steel. Restored for cosmetic display. Captured 12-14-2013 off the display line and parked in front of the engine hous... (more)

Three class 36 shunter locomotives enters the Leeuhof yard for shunting duties on a Sunday morning.

This former B&O S-2 is still on the roster but a pair of rebuilt "hammerhead" UP EMD switchers do most of the work today at the Boise plant in Frostbite Falls.

There aren't too many end cab switchers remaining on the BNSF roster but here we find three awaiting their next call to duty in Duluth.

Carfloat service between Frisco's (former Alabama, Tennessee and Northern) yard and a tank farm across the Mobile River on Blakeley Island started in the 1930s and lasted into the BNSF era. This ... (more)

Sitting along U.S. highway 53 in Trego, Wisconsin, WGN #862, a former Milwaukee Road SW-1 built in 1940, sitting idle soaking up some fall sunshine on it's Great Northern inspired paint scheme alo... (more)

Hidden Ruby. This loco wears the paint scheme of its original owner. It was built for the Lehigh Valley as an NW2 and rebuilt in 1956. Here, we see it switching loaded gondolas of scrap metal d... (more)