After so many years of serving the Landenberg Branch, former B&O SW1, #8408 is finally heading out for a rebuild by McHugh Locomotive & Crane in Fairless Hills, PA. Here, we see her crossing a DuP... (more)

After so many years of serving the Landenberg Branch, former B&O SW1, #8408 is finally heading out for a rebuild by McHugh Locomotive & Crane in Fairless Hills, PA. Here, we see her departure from... (more)

After so many years of serving the Landenberg Branch, former B&O SW1, #8408 is finally heading out for a rebuild by McHugh Locomotive & Crane in Fairless Hills, PA. Here, we see her passing throug... (more)

Midwest Locomotive Incorporated SW1 1940 (ex-MWLX 91, ex-Kansas City Power & Light 91, ex-BN 91, nee-CB&Q 9147) switches a pair of former Southern Pacific SW1500s around Midwsest's facility in Kan... (more)

Midwest Locomotive Incorporated SW1 1940 (numbered for the year in which it was constructed) moves another SW1, recently refurbished and repainted for Advantage Metals, around the Midwest Locomoti... (more)

Mid America Car's little SW-1 handling a big GE.

As Wheeling & Lake Erie #3048 looks on (an SD40-3) an un-numbered NL&S SW1 pulls hard on a cut of hoppers loaded with crushed stone. Who at EMD in the late 1940's would have imagined this tough sw... (more)

Southern SW1 #404 (later #1007) works at Havelock, NC in this July 1972 scene. This engine still exists on the Knoxville & Holston River Railway as KXHR #1007 and sports a coat of Southern paint.

Southern SW1 #1007 working at Greensboro, NC in this February 1974 scene. #1007 lives on today at the Knoxville & Holston River Railroad in Knoxville, TN as KXHR 1007 and still sports it Southern ... (more)

Two lone switchers sit engulfed by the steel structures around the Twin Ports. The structure on the right is used for loading grain into ships with the Blatnik Bridge in the background.

Happy Fourth of July!After making sure nothing started on fire during the trips, I got the guys together for a picture. Couldn't ask for a better group of guys. In the middle is Scooter, President... (more)

It's 1939, and Soo Line's brand new diesel unit is heading over a bridge with a boxcar... no, wait a minute. That is a BNSF car, and this is in 2011. After Minnesota Northern's usual power went do... (more)

Another closer look at the great looking little SW1's resting in the LRS yard. A couple of these units appear to be in good shape. I'm not sure if they still operate from time to time. The majorit... (more)

This is a going away shot of a LRS train with one of the old SW1's tagging along the rear. I'm not sure about the history of the unit, and though it doesn't wear G&O black like most of the rest of... (more)

The LRS graveyard looks quite different than it did last year. In 2010, G&O management purged the yard full of derelict SW1s, GE 70-tonners, and Alco switchers. A few went to rebuilders, one was d... (more)