Rare breed Built for the Reading in 1973, this 1000 horse powered little switcher that could has outlasted its original owner and now finds itself earning revenue for CSX along with 4 othe... (more)

I get quite the look from the conductor as I snap this photo.

The last active EJ&E switcher makes a rare appearance at the east end of Hawthorne with one car. No idea why the switcher is up this was as CN hasnt had a SW type engine at Hawthorne in years...

Originally built (in December 1973) for the Reading Company (as their 2622), GMTX SW1001 97 now works at a grain elevator in Fort Worth, Texas. When Reading became a part of Conrail in 1976, the ... (more)

Still Hauling 50 loads even at their ripe old age!!!

Briefly halting near a switch, AK 1223 switches a cut of modified flat cars in the AK yard at Ashland.

Framed by an abandoned flyover from the River Terminal days, a Cleveland Works job shoves BOF scrap cars into Island Yard with the Cleveland skyline in the background.

A pair of Birmingham Southern SW1001's switch out the Fairfield yard. The ruins of US Steels Ensley works sits in the background.

BS SW1001 #219 at Fairfield, AL || May 1986

Workstained Foster Yeoman SW1001 #44, Western Yeoman II, shunts wagons at the FY quarry at Merehead in September 1988. This locomotive was obtained by FY in 1980 and was the EMD flag waver that wa... (more)

It takes lots of little trains to keep a blast furnace running. At left CWRO 206 works the C5 blast furnace switching bottle cars while up on the high line CWRO 211 holds back a string of coke car... (more)