Another one of those non-descript butt heads that toiled away for decades unnoticed. Get them while you can.
UP 1852 is working the Provo Yard. A rebuild to a SW10 wasn't far in this units future.
Crew members on SS 100 grin at the driver of a home-assembled kit car just before they squeal past it on rails rendered nearly invisible by the pavement
The end of the line has come for the land locked SW9’s at Charolais Coal in Saint Charles, KY. The scrappers are in the process of removing usable parts before the real cutting begins. The uni... (more)
Apparently acquired from neighbor C&O this unit really didn't look too bad. It would probably be a nightmare figuring out who actually owns the thing since the loader has been shut down for some ... (more)
It's afternoon and it's the weekend and these CHS switchers are resting comfortably, one even wrapped in a blankie, deep within the safe confines of the large CHS Elevator in Superior, WI waiting ... (more)
This may have been the first unit repainted in to the PAL scheme.
L&N SW9 #2285 resting between assignments at Tilford Yard in Atlanta, August 1973.
Former Baltimore & Annapolis SW9 with its stacks capped at Chadburn, NC || November 2001
In a move I had never witnessed before, a lone SW9 takes four hot bottle cars between the steel mills in Granite City.
CHS road power brings a cut of cars out onto the mainline.
Backyard Plaything?! - While exploring the remains of the old Boston and Maine Hillsboro Branch one late summer day I was quite surprised to find this sitting seemingly in someone's backyar... (more)
This was one of the few I ever saw that had not been rebuilt in SSB-1200 by ATSF.
