Burlington Northern SW1500 301 switching at Hillyard June 1970. James C. Herold Photo from my Collection.

Yard goats are present at the east end of Blue Island Yard on a nice summer morning.

A Rail Trusts Equipment Inc. SW1500 pulls a long string of covered hoppers over the levee and on towards the Port Allen Docks on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

IHB SW1500 1515 leads a local west through Calumet.

Burlington Northern SW1500 #31 was built October 1968 as Frisco (SLSF) #326. After Burlington Northern - Santa Fe merger, unit became BNSF #3411

ILSX SW1500 942 leads Progressive's Bensenville job west through Bensenville.

"Meet at Station 2" East Jersey Railroad's SW1500 321B holds in the clear at "Station #2" while Conrail Shared Assets BA-3 passes on the Constable Hook Industrial Track... (more)

"Lite Down the Constable Hook" East Jersey Railroad's SW1500 321B heads lite down the Constable Hook Industrial Track back to the company's main yard in the IMTT-Bayonne facility.

"Sandwiching the Cube at IMTT" East Jersey Railroad's SW1500 321B holds on one of the rack tracks with a cut of cars while an other crew member adds a car to the head end using t... (more)

"The IMTT Switcher"

East Jersey Railroad SW1500 321B runs light down the Constable Hook Industrial Track in Bayonne, NJ. EJR is New Jersey's second oldest continuously operating ... (more)

PREX 1500 is seen working Andersons Ethanol in Clymers, IN.

A duo of Indiana Harbor Belt SW1500's creep across the bridge over the Grand Calumet River. This set is usually on pulldowns at Blue Island so it was unique to see them north of Gibson Yard.

On a muggy August afternoon the Dover & Rockaway River crew switches a plastics extruder in Rockaway.

IHB SW1500's 1511 and 1524, along with "hump trailer" slug 477 shove a heavy train to the hump at Blue Island Yard in Riverdale. The SW1500's were built in 1967 and 1968, respectively. S... (more)

The Chicago skyline stands tall 23 miles away as ArcelorMittal SW1500 #111, one of the many locomotives on the #1 leader in steel's roster, shoves a bottle train into the massive East Chicago plan... (more)