GE industrials morphed over the years with little fanfare and no change of model. Much like the tractors on 18-wheelers components varied from user to user. One locomotive we handled had a two c... (more)

A fate worse than death? Maybe not but life was hard for an old unit on BS&G's makeshift railroads. One of the last truly ragtag old southern operations. Ramshackle "Snaptrack" laid on... (more)

I listed it as Bunge but in fact unit was probably ex-EJ&E, leased from RELCO. This one changed hands many times. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

LC 91 is now a plant switcher at Circle S east of Richburg. It was built for the L&C in 1965, and has spent the latter third of its career at this location.

Two former Illinois Central Paducah rebuilds are spending their final days pulling loaded soybean hoppers around the massive ADM facility in Valdosta, Georgia. A testament of EMD quality is on ful... (more)

SW8 #11 is keeping busy this morning at Cleveland Cliffs in Riverdale, transporting ladle oxygenation cars back and forth between the basic oxygen furnances.

The Norfolk Ford Assembly Plant ceased production on June 2007. In 2011, the main assembly building was purchased by Katoen Natie for $10.5 million to be used as a distribution hub for plastic pe... (more)

Former Ohio Centeal GP10 is the Conrad Yelvington switcher in Palmetto

Fresh Paint. On February 23, 2020, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron #30 (DS4-4-660, Baldwin, 9/1948) sits in its long time home at the Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark. This locomotive is not... (more)

SCOX 5002 at Scoular Grain, Coolidge, KS.

A former BNSF SD9 rests beneath a star filled winter sky in rural Nebraska. The H1 paint scheme on this unit is holding up nicely. This is certainly a rare breed.

Lehigh Hanson has acquired two former Missouri Pacific SD40-2s (UP 4279, previously MP 4279 and originally MP 3279) and 4297, (UP 4297, previously MP B4297 and originally MP 3297) to operate their... (more)

TCRY 31 at a new trans-load facility west of Pecos, TX.

TLSX 8740 at Jal, NM. Not sure what's going on at this facility now, as they no longer load sand, and CIT lease units are gone.

HCXX 1001 at the now closed Hi-Crush facility west of Pecos, TX.