The winter sun is setting on the Thermal Belt Railway's service in Forest City on New Year's Eve, 2008. The engine is on the former Southern Railway SB line, acquired by Rutherford County from NS... (more)

On our way to downtown Minneapolis, we stumbled upon this by chance. Schreier Malting Company's SW1 was working General Mills' Elevator T on this snowy December morning. This switcher was built fo... (more)

With the Lake Champlain breakwater in the background, Vermont Railway SW1 5 poses in the Burlington yard. Today a park and bike trail have been built on what was then unused land between the VTR y... (more)

1277 makes a brief stop as the hand breaks are released on a cut of two scrap gondolas at CMC Steel.

For the last several years, D&R has moved unit tie trains from a treatment plant near their North Dardanelle yard to the UP interchange in Russellville. The trains, which run perhaps 15-18 times ... (more)

WRRX 1277, built for the C&NW pauses briefly with a cut of loaded scrap gondolas before continuing about its switching duties. 1277 is employed by the CMC (formerly Gerdau) steel mill in Knoxville... (more)

CTC 4 rolls past McWherter park, leading 3RR's Christmas Lantern Express east on its first run of the day.

CTC 4 slides into one of the many S-curves that wait ahead as the 3RR's Christmas Lantern Express rolls east.

Orphaned by the Milwaukee Road out in the Puget Sound Region when service was cut on March 15, 1980, SW1 no. 878 left Milwaukee's roster and was sold to Weyerhaeuser Co. This photo was taken 4 mon... (more)

A classic EMD SW1 shoving a GE ET44C4 around Mid America Car in Kansas City.

The ex-Delaware & Hudson RS3 4118 is gone, and the Anthracite Railway 1986 excursion are in the charge of an ex-Amtrak SW1. The train is seen crossing the trestle over the Hosensack Creek in Palm,... (more)

This D&R train has just about reached top of the grade at Oakland Heights, as it passes behind the elementary school of the same name just after the end of the school day.

NIRC SW1 1, Metra 425 and NIRC 3 head light eastbound through New Lenox.

Sitting in the deadline at the Laurinburg & Southern Railroad's engine facility in Laurinburg, North Carolina, is Chattahoochee Locomotive Company SW1 8128. CLCX 8128 was built by EMD in August 1... (more)

Wilmington & Western Railroad's ex B&O 8408 sits next to the old mill buildings in Yorklyn, DE.