KXHR 4 sits quietly on a humid summer evening after a long weekend of photo charters.

Pioneer Valley SW1 27 clatters across the Conrail diamond at Westfield, MA, a few days after the railroad's startup. The 43-year-old switcher is on former New Haven trackage, crossing the former B... (more)

Fresh out of the paint shop and resplendent in its bright new coat of Pinsly red, Pioneer Valley SW1 27 poses at the railroad's Westfield, MA, headquarters a few days after the line's July 1982 st... (more)

One of the Sanitary District of Chicago's veteran SW1's takes thirteen empties under the CN branch line (former C&IW) in Forest View.

On a pleasant spring day, Pennsylvania Railroad 9206 leads a train from Flemington to Ringoes, N.J., over the Copper Hill Trestle.

Adam Farence Photo

One of the rarely photographed locomotives in the Columbia area rests in the American Italian Pasta Company Plant. It switches various cars for the plant and has done so since roughly 2005. Here... (more)

Two classic EMD SW1s hustle a load of pulpwood along the line of the Cloquet Terminal - formerly the Duluth & Northeastern - at Cloquet, Minnesota.

Austere is the word to describe Conrail’s minimalist effort to patch this ex-Lehigh Valley SW1. All LV markings have been painted over, but there is no evidence that this is a Conrail engine anywh... (more)

One of Soo Line's first diesels, and only SW1 - delivered by EMC in 1939, arrives at its new home in Duluth. The small diesel had been owned by Independent Locomotive Service where it was repainte... (more)

A Milwaukee Road SW1 switcher returns across the Chippewa River bridge to the yard after working west side industries in Eau Claire, WI. The three truss bridge was light weight restricting diesel ... (more)

30th Street Encounter – 2

Soon after a GG1-pulled Harrisburg train arrived at 30th Street Station in Philad... (more)

A Russellville PD cruiser is first in line at the D&R crossing at a spot the railroad refers to as Bernice. The crew will be dropping that bulkhead lumber flat in a shipper's siding just ahead be... (more)

One of D&R's venerable SW!'s - this one dating to 1942 - passes a concrete crossing sign post at 8th Street as it starts its trip home to North Dardanelle.

A graveyard of power for the Pickens Railroad sits in the tiny unincorporated location known as Docheno. The former CSX MOW U18B has been almost totally gutted for parts to keep the fleet of PICK... (more)