SP 1518, the first SD-Series locomotive, sits at the Illinois Railway Museum

Emerging from the (coal) mist! This rarely visible unit until recently served as a plant switcher for the Mirant Energy coal-fired power plant in Alexandria, VA. Usually hidden behind rows... (more)

CNW 402 poses under the sand tower at the small Winona engine facility. The high point of my day railfanning around Winona was chasing the CNW freight West to Rochester with the CNW 404 - BU40 - 4... (more)

Empty Northbound ALL Train X35 right beside the C30-7 survivors on N59 Helper consist to push X70 to Billings Lake.

SOO LINE bandit 2010 is the lone motor in charge of switching out cars for a freight to go eastbound. SOO 2010 started out as MILW 190 in October 1966 and continues on with original paint bleeding... (more)

The end for Mongrel 1505 came when the roundhouse burned at Iron Mountain on June 12th, 1976. Here the unit is seen at Adams headed for scrap. Photo is in my collection with no photographer inform... (more)

A Burlington Northern F45 rests at BN’s 31st Street roundhouse in April 1984. Showing signs of being “ridden hard and put away wet” so-to-speak, this locomotive, ordered by Great Northern bu... (more)

Previously owned by Canadian National, but now owned by Norfolk Southern

CNW 6706 rests at the end of a long string of stored C628's in the new ore yard at Escanaba. After being stored in December of 1986 the Alcos spent quite awhile in the number six ore yard with der... (more)

A couple of crew members ride the footboards as they switch West End Yard. The ICG years haven't been kind to 502, which is losing paint about as quickly as it is gaining dirt and rust.

Built 1952 & "served" in Korea

The A&O helper rests in Burnsville.

Ex-BNSF, still in service.

Oof....the SW1 leased by Malt One, a grain elevator within the CPR Shoreham Yard, is looking pretty rough. This thing is commonly seen from the popular railfan hangout at station sign University,... (more)