Eastbound Ellis & Eastern rock loads head across 11th Street on the west side of town.

An EMD SW1200 drags an Amtrak F40PH from the Roper Diesel Shop to the Rio Grande passenger station in Salt Lake City on May 31, 1992. D&RGW 135 was built by EMD for the Rio Grande in Jan. 1965 and... (more)

Black River and Western's annual Great Train Robbery - BDRV SW1200 #1202 has just picked up the "hostages" from Pumpkin Jct. station and is now proceeding towards Ringoes.

A Soo Line transfer freight enters Milwaukee Road’s Pigs Eye Yard in St. Paul, Minnesota, on August 11, 1985. Powered by two former Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern SW1200s and two Soo Line ... (more)

Looking very much an orphan SW1200RSu 1005 sits at the end of a neglected looking siding in CANDO's yard in East Edmonton. This loco was last reported on the Central Manitoba Railway. CANDO's E... (more)

Earning Its Keep: Nearly 58 years after it was built as No. 128 for the Northern Pacific, Watco SW1200 No. 1214 is still earning its for the Mission Mountain Railroad. On May 29, 2013, No. ... (more)

In the cab of STC 1202 on the rear of a Simpson Railroad log train. The 1202 was built for CB&Q in 1959 #610, to BN renumbered #259, to Pacific Transportation Services renumbered #1202, To Simpson... (more)

Just underway to start a day of moving gons full of reclaimed steel scrap to be recycled into rebars and billets.

At the vast dry sort facility located at the west end of the railroad a Simpson conductor guides the 1200 to a hook with the waiting 1202 after the train had delivered logs to be cold decked. Ano... (more)

A split screen view: Simpson power idling on the left, center beam flat sitting on the Mill 5 lead, right. As seen from an empty log flat car.

If while you wait for the stacker to unload the log train you get bored, then get busy with clearing debris from the bottom of the bunkers.

The lumber train was augmented this morning by several empty bunkers. The centerbeam flat loads were on the rear half of the train with the 1201 on the rear. Someone who lives at the intersectio... (more)

Richmond Pacific 49 takes a train of cement cars out of the Cemex plant in Richmond, California.

The 1201 crawls along Park Street, nearing the end of its morning turn to Mill 5 and back, loaded up with fresh-cut boards. The railroad has begun swapping out the old A-frame cars with newly acq... (more)

Switchers that are not needed and ones requiring repair occupy the whisker tracks at Shoreham.