On a nice morning, Foster Townsend Rail Logistics approaches their yard as MP15DC #1315 leads five cars down Dorcas Street and across Broadway.

Former Union Pacific 1381 waits for the day when it will go through the rebuild program and come out of the shop with a new coat of paint and markings under the Locomotive Specialist banner. Phot... (more)

GRW 324, a former EJ&E SW1200, passes a handful of older CN equipment as it shoves a train into Kirk Yard in Gary, Indiana.

Louisville & Nashville MP15AC #4234 passing thru the interlocking controlled by Bell Tower. #4234 was built 3/1978; later re# SBD 4232; later re# CSX 1139

A bad ordered bilevel car was ready for pick-up at Joliet's Washington Street Coach Yard and NIRC 3 got the call to head west from 47th Street to retrieve it. The old Milwaukee Road veteran slows ... (more)

Metra SW1200, NIRC 3, leads 3 cars as it diverges from the St. Charles Airline to the Metra Rock Island District at the 16th Street Tower junction, crossing over CN's Freeport Sub. These cars, inc... (more)

Seaboard System MP15AC #4205 idles at the Tilford Yard Service Center. #4205 was built February 1978 as Seaboard Coast Line #4205 and later became CSX #1175

Seaboard System MP15AC #4232 idles behind the Boyles Yard roundhouse. #4232 was built 3/1978 as L&N 4232; later re# CSX 1137

Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern EMD SW1200 No. 34 rests at Soo Line’s Shoreham Yard locomotive facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in September 1984. The switcher was built in May 1965 and is... (more)

Central Illinois Switcher heads to BNSF Ashland Yard with scrap steel loads. The 1206 was recently painted in Burlington inspired scheme.

A work trip took me to Saint Maries, Idaho for the first time since 1977 or so when the Milwaukee Railroad was still operating. I found a locomotive that's the same age as I am sitting at the dep... (more)

The Burlington Junction Railway finds a lucky sucker hole in the clouds as MP15AC #1521 pulls on six empty lumber cars.

Port Harbor MP15DC, an ex SP unit, does some switching at the Port.

Built by EMD in April 1965 as Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis 1239, this SW1200 is now owned by Respondek Railroad Corporation. RRC 1239 was photographed in Granite City, Illinois, on ... (more)

94 & 48 approach Lake Wales whilst working the Frostproof Turn from West Lake Wales to Frostproof