After working the BNSF interchange the day before and then arranging outbounds from Relco, the Iowa Southern Railway departs from Albia, Iowa and slowly rolls along weedy track behind a CBFX SW150... (more)

A former Mittal switcher shoves a train into Indiana Harbor.

The Iowa Southern Railway crew has just arrived in Albia, Iowa and fires up the locomotives, a SW1500 and GP7, for the days work. The crew will head north to the BNSF interchange to swap cars, th... (more)

SW1500s were a common sight a Boyles Yard in the 1970s, some in the newer, simplified L&N switcher scheme, and some in this earlier scheme, with slanted letters and numbers in yellow, outlined in ... (more)

A slug set switches the West end of the massive Cleveland Cliffs Indiana Harbor complex. The slug set still wears ArcelorMittal paint for now.

The CHV switch crew prepares to couple a Southern boxcar to their SW1500. This is all gone now, as are virtually all of parent company West Point-Pepperell's textile plants in the Chattahoochee R... (more)

Omaha Track's 1501 (SW1500) waits for orders to sort sand cars at Eaton, Colorado.

The crew of Conrail NB-31 has stopped their train at Teterboro station on NJT's Pascack Valley Line. Note that the consist includes mostly empty 86' auto parts box cars from the Ford Lead. There... (more)

ILSX 942 rests away in the fading sun at “The PRI Group“ Industry in Bensenville.

M&E 20 crosses Kennedy Parkway in route to B&G Food Products. To the right is a former M&E railroad station.

Clarendon & Pittsford 502 works solo in the yard at Rutland, VT. 502 has tied on to an interesting cut of cars that includes a former Green Mountain 40' box car and the Artrain consist (only part... (more)

Here we see three of the Denver Rock Island Railroad's switcher engines sitting in their yard in Denver, Colorado. DRIR 1083 is a SW1500, DRIR 88 is a GP9 and the SW8 appears to be 553 that has be... (more)

Alexander Railroad uing one of their nearly pristine ex-Southern Pacific SW1500s.