Trains and Planes Under Threatening Skies. A passing storm system dumps rain in the background across the high desert as PRLX works a cut of cars to the transfer point with Union Pacific's ... (more)

The trainmen are riding the rear platform of an ex-Pennsy SW9 built in April, 1953 (PRR 8542) as it rumbles past the old REA express platform and CORK tower. (CORK took its name from the Armstron... (more)

A foggy January night finds SRY 900 taking a clear signal at the Annacis swing bridge.

UMP 9009 a EMD SW9 is shoving 1 tank car for spotting at Cooper Creek Chemical Corporation in Conshohocken, PA outside the plant limits of ArcelorMittal, this and the Philadelphia Inquirer, are th... (more)

Progress Rail SW-9 switches out a couple of boxcars at the Mojave Air & Space Port, where Progress maintains a wheel refurbishment facility

Upper Merion & Plymouth 9009 a SW9 works the UMP 800 Job (8AM OD in Coatesville, PA at the Brandywine Valley Railroad base of Operations) works the former Alan Wood Iron and Steel Company now a Ar... (more)

This was once a common sight across the country, now rare: a classic EMD switcher working an urban yard. Boston & Maine SW9 1231 shuttled cars at Mystic Junction in East Somerville, MA, on a sprin... (more)

Still wearing the patriotic colors of The Pittsburgh & Shawmut Railroad, PNWR 1201 sits with stacks capped in Albany Yard. This unit is suppose to be trimmed from the Portland and Western roster.

Everett Railroad SW9 8990 switches covered hoppers in the woods at Sproul, Pennsylvania. The unit started life as New York Central 8990.

The New Everett

The Everett Railroad of today, notable for steam excursions, has nothing in common with the original Everett Railroad, other than the name. Originally, the road ope... (more)

Founded in the 1880s, the Chicago, West Pullman, and Southern was designed to transport steel from Wisconsin Steel's plant on Chicago's South Side to the nearby Harvester manufacturing plant. The... (more)

PLSX SW9 2308 sits outside the PLS shop in East Chicago.

Katy switcher drill cars at its Glen Park Yard.

Lehigh Valley SW-9 282 and 284 at Oak Island Yard