Simpson Timber SW1200 # 1201 shuffles empty log bunks within the sprawling mill complex in Shelton, WA. Picture taken on mill property with permission.

The Buchanan Forest Products owned Terrace Bay Pulp mill is just 1 of just 4 pulp/paper mills left running in Northwestern Ontario. Prior to the recession there were 10 mills operating in the area... (more)

Switching the West end of the Deer Lodge Yard

While NBC filmed the Yasmine Bleeth TV movie THE LAKE up the street, the Fillmore & Western used their former Sout... (more)

Freshly repainted United States Steel Works SW9 #1246 switches gondolas at the mill in Granite City.

NS 6187 An Sd40-2 and slug unit 870 a PRU6 Slug switch cars in the South Yard in Roanoke Va.

About to Cross the BNSF mains after passing thru the bluff to get Mississippi River bridge.

Ex Bcol 758 SD40-2 purchased by Railworld in 2008 from CN has been put back into running condition by the MMA engine repair facility crew at Derby. It is presently being used on the Brownville lo... (more)

Two DL&W employees have a quick chat as yard goat SW8 500 sits quietly in the background waiting to shuffle things around the Lackawanna's busy Scranton Back Shops. Oh, if it were only 1955 again!... (more)

Georges Creek Railway 101 pulls the empty tanker car's out of the clay hole.

A year and one month later I was given the opportunity to shoot Gerdau Ameristeel's SW1200 once again, this time in the dead line with an ex-Raritan River Steel crane instead of Railroad: Gerdau Ameristeel
Locomotive: EMD SW1200
Location: Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
Locomotive #: GAXX L212
Train ID: Switcher
Photo Date: June 09, 2008

Lesson #376: Sometimes a little research makes a photo worth posting. Last May I was given the opportunity to shoot the back-up switcher working the Gerdau Ameristeel plant in Perth Amboy, NJ. Wit... (more)

By January of 1968, one of the last strongholds for SP's fleet of Baldwin roadswitchers was the Roseville yard and hump. Dound #5242 working the East end of the hump.

The UP North Yard switcher switches out Morton Salt, which involves a short stretch of street running. A road flare has been set out to warn motorists on busy Elston Ave.

Sopor 7004 is loading the train ferry with wood, paper and aluminum from the local industries in Baie Comeau. The Ferry makes a daily round trip from Baie Comeau to Mont Joli. You can see the fe... (more)