The Pyle Headlight is basically the same design used on some late steam engines. Some of the pneumatic appliances on this engine are also shared with some of the era's external combustion locomot... (more)

Two former Laurenburg & Southern SW1's sit in ruins along the Pickens Railroad in the tiny, unincorporated town of Docheno, SC.

Recently restored locomotive 8408 sits in Marshallton Yard along with ex Erie Lackawanna caboose 149. 8408 is repainted in the Baltimore and Ohio she use to dawn many decades ago. 8408 was origina... (more)

JRWX SW1 115 was built as Union Railroad 458 June 1949, JRWX 121 seen behind the 115 was built for the Milwaukee Road in March 1940 prior to WWll wartime restrictions putting a temporary halt SW1 ... (more)

Nicholson Terminals lonely SW1 moving an empty flat car back to the interchange with US Steel. Nicholson Terminal handles stevedoring and exporting in Detroit using this lonely SW1, rarely seen o... (more)

EMD SW1 #400 brings the Candy Cane Limited into Ringoes station (sorry, the North Pole) during the final day of the 2016 season, two days before Christmas.

BR&W SW1 #400 about to cross Toad Lane with the Candy Cane Limited.

Black River & Western 400 will be departing soon for Ringoes with the Candy Cane Limited.

White Pine Copper Refinery's SW1 does some light switching in the small yard. The future was uncertain at this point and the plant shut down a year later.

White Pine Copper Refinery's SW1 goes about its switching on a fine summer morning. The end was near for this small operation as the plant closure was in late 2010.

A former Washington Terminal SW1 sits at Union Station in St. Louis.

GARDEN CITY KS Sept 16 1980 -- Garden Ciity Western Ry. SW1 202 is missing its traction trucks and up on blocks.

Faded, and with yellow safety paint added to the handrails and journal box covers, this Reading SW1 looks otherwise the same as when it rolled out of LaGrange in 1941. It survived as one of the ol... (more)

This former Milwaukee Road SW1 moves a cut of empty tank cars stored on the shortline Wisconsin Great Northern.

I christen thee.....A bottle of champagne breaks on the coupler of WC #1 as it is dedicated to the late Francis J. Wiener in November of 1990. Fran was an avid fan of the Soo Line and later the WC... (more)