On a very hot and humid morning, Hanson Material Service’s SW900 brings cars dropped off by CN back into the plant on the former EJ&E Romeoville Branch.

Amsted Graphite Materials Company in Anmoore has a Ex-Navy locomotive used for switching loads of coke in the facility. Unfortunately for this locomotive, the times of rail delivery to the plant h... (more)

Amsted Graphite Materials Company in Anmoore has a Ex-Navy locomotive used for switching loads of coke in the facility. Unfortunately for this locomotive, the times of rail delivery to the plant h... (more)

A crewmember throws a switch as the ex-Port of Montreal SW1001 temporarily takes a break from its switching duties at the Axiall plant.

CORX 997 (SW1000) pushes a cut of tank cars over the old girder bridge leading into the massive Coors brewing facility.

An ex-UP SW10 is a switcher at a facility in Delano.

An ex-DMIR unit is the elevator switcher at Western Milling in Famoso. Unfortunately this unit has since been replaced.

A rebuilt GP9 spends a quiet afternoon at a grain transfer facility.

ADMX 1486 throttles up to get a cut of loaded soybean cars moved towards the unloading pit.

Just outside of town along the Norfolk Southern AGS South District is Dunn Roadbuilders large Meridian facility. The GP8 was originally a Frisco GP7 built in 1950. Illinois Central Gulf rebuilt ... (more)

National Steel Corporation Weirton Steel Division (WSX) SW1500 306 switches cars at their facility. Built by EMD in January 1971 as Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 9288, this switcher was later renumbered... (more)

Delivered as Lake Terminal 1009 in January 1948, this NW2 appears to have been well-tended over its 25 years of service. I think Acipco had another EMD switcher in orange and green.

Coors Critter CORX 998 (SW1001) shoves a cut of special hoppers back towards the Coors brewing facility in Golden, Colorado.

A long way from its previous home, a former Wisconsin Central unit now waits to go on duty at a Columbia Grain elevator just east of Rudyard.