While the big H20-44s were working the road trains this unit had to stay home and perform the mundane switching jobs. Much appreciation to SWPC for permission to shoot, etc.

OKLAHOMA CITY OK (January) 1975 — ATSF F7A 275L gleams in the sun while pausing at Nowers Yard. EMD built the phase II unit in November-December 1953 (b/n 18923) and delivered it in blue with ch... (more)

A set of Southern Pacific power makes a move at the west switch of Mount Hebron siding. This location is on the Black Butte Subdivision between Klamath Falls and Dunsmuir.

Retired Santa Fe way car (a caboose for most of us) ATSF 999945 has taken on a second life as a yard office at Kaiser, the yard serving (surprisingly enough) Kaiser Steel Industries in Fontana, on... (more)

From another angle. All packed up and ready to go. Sold by a dealer to another industry, double reduction gearing and friction bearings dictate that it must ride to destination on other wheels. ... (more)

All packed up and ready to go. Sold by a dealer to another industry, double reduction gearing and friction bearings dictate that it must ride to destination on other wheels. Photo by Jim Satter... (more)

The northbound Coast Starlight prepares to stop at Mount Hebron, California on the Black Butte Subdivision. It will meet two opposing Southern Pacific freight trains there.

So many GE critters are custom in some way. These little locomotives are narrow, not narrow gauge, just narrow. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

A great operation for railfans but somewhat unfortunate for the principals, now long since defunct.

A Southern Pacific freight heads east along the "beautiful" Los Angeles River on the Union Pacific's Los Angeles Sub, which it uses to head south ("railroad east") through this part of downtown Lo... (more)

A trio of switchers await the call to duty at the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's Hobart Yard, not far from downtown Los Angeles. These three SW9s – ATSF 2423, 2425 and 2428 – are among ... (more)

Monon F units photographed inside the Monon Railroad Lafayette, IN shops on 08/02/59 using ASA 10 Kodachrome. Original Kodachrome slide. Photographer unknown, John E. Troxler collection.

Monon Shops, Lafayette, IN, 08/02/59. Original Kodachrome slide, photographer unknown, John E. Troxler collection.

I previously posted a roster shot of this former MP unit switching the paper mill and I found another putting more context to the scene. I like those classy classification lights.

Somewhere in the area of Concord or Salisbury or the vicinity a SB special is racing along. I wish they still used that full length dome. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.