The builders plate on this SW1 shows a build date of11-13-1941 giving it over 72 years of service. And it's still going, working at the Cloquet Terminal Railroad in Cloquet, MN where it works the ... (more)
When Salt Lake City hosted three long distance trains per day, a switch engine was on hand to add or subtract cars from the California Zephyr. Amtrak SW1 #736, nicknamed 'Lil' Toot', gleams in the... (more)
Lehigh Valley 112 brings the 4 pm train from Flemington into Ringoes. This engine is being restored by Pennsy Railcars restoration. This was the last scheme for the LV 112 before being forgotten a... (more)
ICG Mc Comb yard switcher northbound between South Yard and downtown
Morristown & Erie has reactivated former Washington Terminal SW1 738. The classic switcher is moving a former Reading Company business car.
On a quiet Saturday morning a lineup of classic rail equipment is posed in front of the Morristown engine house. From right-to-left is work-a-day locomotive C424 18, ex Washington Terminal SW1 738... (more)
D&R has greatly improved their 'mainline' over the last couple of years, but SW1 15 still lists a bit as the crew starts up Oakland Heights on their way to North Dardanelle. One of D&R's unusual ... (more)
Washington Terminal utilizes the largest pool of small switchers in the Amtrak system, and three different models are seen among the four units in this shot. Two of which are one-of-a-kinds on Am... (more)
A must see (and ride) visit to the Northwoods of Wisconsin is the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad. Here, former Milwaukee Road 1616, an SW-1 built in 1940, rolls the family pizza train Northward... (more)
This took a ton of color correcting due to the multiple oddball light sources.
A quiet Sunday morning at Cenex.
A heavy snow squall falls upon the nation's capital in early March.
Ex-Milwaukee Road SW-1 862 hibernates alongside the DM&IR's 250-ton wrecking crane after a spring storm deposited a foot of wet snow.
While on a railfan trip to New England we stumbled across this Boston & Maine SW-1. I believe this to be in Manchester New Hampshire but never took notes because "I'll always remember where that i... (more)
