A rare Saturday morning barge job begins the slow and steady task of loading barge #931 at the Annacis Rail Marine Terminal. With the low tide, the tank cars have a pretty large grade to descend o... (more)

An EMD SW9 takes a break in Union Pacific's Riverdale Yard in Ogden on Feb. 27, 1977. The 1844 would be rebuilt as an SW10, released the UP 1217 on March 30, 1981.

Its been three years since the Sequatchie Valley Railroad finish scrapping the rest of there older fleet, and only one out of two switcher miss the cutting torch. Walking Horse & Eastern 1186 star... (more)

The deadline at Mount Elgin has been reduced in recent months to just OSRX 52 (ex-C&O 5242), OSRX 641 and a CP baggage car.

AMP's shop switcher was NYSW SW9 #120. A new cab, paint and mechanical rebuild, it works on.

USSX 1246 makes a shove back into Granite City Steel at Granite City, Illinois.

Power Couple!

Union Pacific's North Yard Hostlers shuffle an SD45 near South Tower in Salt Lake City.

A trio of black and orange first-generation switchers await their next assignment at Blue Island Yard. The IHB's fleet would consist entirely of switchers until the late 1990s. Tom Golden photo.

A killer power combo works the afternoon switch job at Provo Yard on June 17, 1976.

Soo Line EMD SW9 No. 2114 sits beneath the towering twin water tanks at Soo’s Shoreham Yard roundhouse on November 18, 1984.

Big South Fork Scenic Railway SW9106 on the afternoon excursion train prepares to depart Stearns for Blue Herron.

The first rays of the sun catch this locomotive which began on ACL, became SCL and wound up out here where the sun will soon heat the air to 105 and no rain has fallen for months.

As a Harbor SW9 brings a string of coil cars south toward the junction east of the Gibson Yard roundhouse, a CMNW coal train transitions from the east-west IHB main to the north-south Conrail Kank... (more)

Even though the essential elements of the steam era are gone, a few structures remained at Provo Yard throughout the 1970s. SW9 No. 1845 takes a breather near the old turntable alongside car shop ... (more)