A rainy day look back through time... Tucked away in the bottom of the New River valley at Hinton, an unidentifiable (at least to me) switcher pauses between shop moves at Appalachian Railc... (more)
Originally NOPB 104. Now working at Buzzi Unicem cement plant in West Dallas at UP Browder yard.
A 1948-built Baldwin switcher sits on display outside Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark. This engine started out as a switcher for the Sloss Furnaces before being sold to U.S Pipe & Foundr... (more)
Out of service. No info on where this unit came from or what became of it. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.
This locomotive was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Union Pacific SD24B 438B in September 1959. Retired by the UP in October 1977, this cabless locomotive was purchased by Prec... (more)
Everything in this photograph is gone. This spur went to a Celanese plant (Rock Hill, South Carolina) that shut down a few years after this 2005 photograph. The plant was torn down. The rail was p... (more)
Cliffs SW1500 304, still in ArcelorMittal paint, leads bottle cars into Indiana Harbor.
CASTLE GATE UT Aug 22 1981 — EMD built this GP9 (b/n 20525) for the Rio Grande in June 1955 as DRGW 5923. In January 1977 Utah Power & Light Co. purchased it, repainted it and it became UPLX 592... (more)
Originally US Army, later Johnson Co. Industrial Railroad, slide labelled "Midwest Historical Society" but unable to find this organization in KS and later history of locomotive is unkno... (more)
Newest addition to the Wildcat Loadout oil operations. Ex UP SD60 #2237.
NRG’s Will County Generating Station in Romeoville, IL owned 2 EMD SD20 locomotive’s. WCCH 1801 and 1802. Those SD20's were used to haul coal trains in and out of the plant from the staging ya... (more)
I was able to catch this guy out in the open. Big West Oil / Flying J, 1 working the refinery in North Salt Lake.
CAGX 1134 (SW1200) gets ready to move a cut of hoppers from the grain facility in Commerce City, Colorado.
Cargill Grain's 1134 (SW1200) works the yard at the Commerce City Grain elevator north of Denver, Colorado.
A former CalTrain GP9 found a home working for Consolidated Grain at the Port of Indiana in Mt Vernon, IN.
