This private unit had no visible markings on any numberboards. Obviously it had been motionless for a while due to the fact that a robin's nest, containing three young birds that the mother was co... (more)

Looking remarkably "unreconstructed" this unit may have handled a commuter run earlier (not the missing number boards) but at this time she's leading a more prosaic life pulling a local. If there... (more)

Coupled to a GP-20 this old-unrebuilt warhorse still has it all, ashcan light, steam generator and wagon wheel radio antenna.

Unrebuilt but apparently already consigned to switcher service this unit has but one tank and none of the characteristic SP "Christmas Tree" lights.

I said I wouldn't post until all the SP is digitized, labelled, etc. (45 boxes). Then I ran across this gloriously SP unit. Wheel antenna, steam generator, ash can light, the whole nine yards! ... (more)

The Albany Day Switcher makes a rare road trip out of the Albany yard to Ashahr siding, where it has just finishing assembling a unit train of 89 empty covered hoppers. In the coming days, the PNW... (more)

The Albany Day Switcher makes a rare road trip out of the Albany yard to take a unit train of 45 empty covered hoppers to Ashahr siding. In the coming days, the PNWR Corvallis Local job will take ... (more)

Veteran SD7 5303 switches in Pueblo Yard in March 1982

Ex-GN unit in yard service looks like a model.

A layover netted me a great day of picture taking. Here this old ex-GN unit shuffles cars as it has for years.

An SD7 and many other locos idle at BN's Clyde yard in Cicero Illinois.

Nevada Northern SD7 401 is switching the Ely yard

Highball from the local

Three SP SD7's rest outside the NWP's Willits roundhouse in August of 1966. turntable was located behind the building and can be seen the the open door. This facility has since been razed.