Even without any paint or lettering, there is no mistaking a Southern Pacific diesel! The Headlight/Gyralight/Emergency Light arrangement and the numberboards on the hood give SP SW1200 2280 that... (more)

Switching passenger cars in Seattle is Amtrak SW1200 (SSB1200) 565. Built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe SW1200 2439 in June 1959, this locomotive was reb... (more)

A very colorful JR Simplot SW1000 gets ready to lash up to a freight in Brighton, Colorado.

Ex Coos Bay SW12 at Boardman, OR.

Lancaster & Chester train 14 at Grace led by the last 2 original switchers that have since been sold and are off the L&C roster

An MVPX SW1200 works the North Star Blue Scope Steel facility in Delta, Ohio on a sunny March morning, pulling a string of bulkhead flats loaded with steel coils out from the west side of the plan... (more)

Feel the burn! GRW 304 moves a few hot bottles around the plant at Gary Works.

Bearing a classy Morrison Knudsen builder's plate this formerly MILW switcher is resting in the summer sun at home base. We need to have builder's plates again. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my... (more)

Bearing a classy Morrison Knudsen builder's plate this formerly MILW switcher is resting in the summer sun at home base. We need to have builder's plates again. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my... (more)

One source says this unit was Illinois Terminal 1200 but the hood shows this is 1210. It was owned by N&W after IT. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

GRW 317 and 307, both SW1200's, are hard at work shoving a cut of coke cars into the plant at Gary Works. Coke dust fills the air on this nice morning just off Lake Michigan.

I love the Juniata Valley operation in Lewistown and always try to see what they're up to while passing through town. The crew had gotten done their work and was on the way to putting 2106 &qu... (more)

A Lancaster and Chester train prepares to work Richburg, South Carolina with SW1200s 9s8 and 97 on point. Looks like they have a lot of steel coil cars intended for Thyssen Steel.

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A Gary Railway slug set, led by former EJ&E SW1200 #321, loads molten steel bottle cars at one of Gary Works' blast furnaces.

Photo by Mike Sosalla. From my collection. We miss you pal.