On October 11, 2013, under a Kodachrome Ble sky, five locomotives on the Lancaster and Chester Railroad work the sidings in Richburg, South Carolina back in 2013. They will then head off toward La... (more)

L&C Train 14 works the Richburg SIT yard with an interesting lash up led by now former L&C EMD SW900 #90. It now is on the Kinston Railroad in North Carolina which is owned by the Jaguar rail grou... (more)

Lancaster and Chester #90 was one of the last two SW900 locomotives to roll off the Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) assembly line, both built for the South Carolina shortline. She spent sixty years wo... (more)

Circle S Feed Mill crew gets ready to move L&C SW900 #91 out od the way so the L&C can bring in the second half of a CSX grain train in 2014.

L&C SW900 #90 was bought new by the railroad in October 1965. Some forty-eight years later, a crew member starts her up so that she can do what she has done for so long, lead a train back to Lanca... (more)

Former Birmingham Southern unit. Stars may have fallen on Alabama but no sunshine did. Not this trip anyway.

A chartered day out with a short period freight and two “donkeys”. What could be better?

Making an unusual move, two Conrail SW900’s pull a half-dozen SEPTA Silverliver IV;s through Perkiomen Junction, Pennsylvania. I’m not sure of the circumstances for this movement.

Conrail’s OCS and Track Geometry fleet was based in Reading, Pennsylvania. Here a former Reading SW900, looking almost like a member of the fleet, shuttles a car around Reading yard. Note the ho... (more)

ADBF 836 is shoving a cut of cars into the siding at Environmental Quality on Detroit's east side. The Adrian and Blissfield owns and operates this section of former Grand Trunk Western's Ho... (more)

Circle S Ranch Feed Mill opened up in 1998. At the time, the L&C rostered all EMD end cabs, but with the new traffic online as well as a later purchase of the former Southern Railway SB Line in La... (more)

Shortly after departing the Hanson Material Service plant, MSC 49-5601 leads five empties over the Des Plaines River in Romeoville. The 67 year old SW900 is making the slow trek out to the old EJ&... (more)

Ex Grand Trunk Western switch engine taking the day off

Emerging from the forest on the former EJ&E Romeoville Branch (also known as "The Bug Line"), Hanson Material Service's SW900 leads three loads into the plant to be unloaded at the custo... (more)