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)

GATX's fairly rare end-cab MPI genset that works their Colton CA facility has reportedly been sidelined and is not presently being used. It was spotted in good light for a quick roster shot last S... (more)

BlendStar's SD40-2 prepares to move ethanol cars at the company's unloading facility adjacent to BNSF's East Thomas Yard. This locomotive is rarely visible and is a real rarity to see.

Assigned to the Ray-Carroll County Grain Growers elevator in Hardin, Missouri, is Ray-Carroll Co-Op SW1200 1221. This engine was built as Chicago & North Western 321 by EMD in February 1962. It ... (more)

Your Friendly Sand Man
Green Dubuque Sand & Gravel EMD SW1 No. 537 sits on the company’s trackage at East Dubuque, Illinois, on August 21, 1994. The switcher was originally built by E... (more)

ConAgra's SW1200 works the Commerce City Grain facility.

Almost back in its former paint, this former ATSF switcher is seen working cars at the plant on a pleasant sunny evening.

A Pickering Lumber locomotive switches a caboose at Standard. This image was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

A rare Baldwin switcher sits on the property it spent its whole life working. The historic Sloss Furnaces were one of the many steel mills that made Birmingham the Magic City.

Blowin' smoke. At the ArcelorMittal steel plant in East Chicago, Indiana GP15-1s MTSX 418 and 417 pull a loaded train on the late afternoon of Thursday, February 20, 2020. This area is extremely b... (more)

USSX #1248, a vintage SW8, shoves on a cut of steel cars at US Steel's Granite City Works. #1188 has been sitting in that same spot, tied onto that same crane for at least a few years now. One has... (more)

Here is a profile shot of the illusive Coors Brewing C998, an SW1001 built in the 1980's specifically for the brewing company.

Pasta Switcher. This 1950s era switcher works the Treehouse Farms pasta plant outside of Columbia. It was built for the Chicago & North Western RR in 1953, then worked for NAEX for awhile ... (more)

Weirton Steel S2 211 lugs a string of ladle cars through Weirton Junction, West Virginia. I.m not sure of the reason for the leading derelict ladle car.