While looking through my archives, I found this shot from last year's trip out west to see the Big Boy. Right next to the yard where the 4014 was parked was the Evanston Roundhouse. These three GE... (more)

Gavilon Grain

Two ADM geeps sit outside the plant in Clinton, IA.

A busy time for Railpower RP20BD 5405 at Sierra Grain Terminal

Here is the Pearl Brewery Texas Transportation Company electric locomotive leaving the SP interchange and crossing Alamo Street as it enters the street trackage on E. Jones Avenue on the way back ... (more)

A pair of ArcelorMittal GP15's are tied onto a cut of coal cars prepared to be taken into the ArcelorMittal East Chicago steel mill.

The CHS (Cenex Harvest States) elevator uses EMD switch engines to shuffle grain cars around its 18 million bushel capacity facilities, the largest in Duluth-Superior. The facility dates back to 1... (more)

Ciment Quebec in Everett, Massachusetts utilizes this cabless remove control slug that was converted from a 1960 Alco 125 ton switcher. Although there is no cab, there is a control stand at each e... (more)

Known as "The Crow," the Cleveland Works Railroad services the Arcelor Mittal steel mills in the industrial flats area of Cleveland, Ohio. In this view, SW1500 1556 leads a train of stee... (more)

Flambeau Paper Co. SW1 at the Park Falls Paper Mill July 1985. This unit has no number that I can see and I'm not sure of the heritage of this SW1 either. This unit replaced a GE 44 Ton switcher. ... (more)

ConAgra's SW1200 gets to work shuffling grain cars at the Commerce City grain facility.

Nekoosa Papers C415 21 at Port Edwards WI May 1980. Built as Southern Pacific 2409 in December 1966 and purchased by Nekoosa Paper Co. in 1979. Southern Pacific and Rock Island both bought ten uni... (more)

Looking to be freshly rejuvenated, an S1 of unknown origins waits in Conrail’s Allentown Yard for a ride to its new home. The vintage alco will soon be working for Missouri Farmer’s Associatio... (more)

Cold at Cold Storage. On the frigid night of November 25, 2019, former Baltimore & Ohio Railroad SW-1 (211) now numbered as 8411 sits Chambersburg Cold Storage in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It se... (more)