IHB 1512 leads a cut of potash cars out of Blue Island Yard on a sunny autumn afternoon

Morristown and Erie SW1500 #20 hauls four Railroad Construction ballast cars bound for the Dover and Rockaway River Railroad west on NJ Transit's Morris and Essex Line at Newark Broad Street.

A former Conrail SW1500 (ex-CR 9522) still wears a bright blue coat of paint in this view at the north end of Enola Yard. The unit was working the yard assisted by an NS GP38-2.

Kingman Terminal works the industrial park just east of downtown Kingman.

Yes Virginia, locomotives do lean, to one degree or another.

The Pottsville Job continues south from Yuengling St. Clair at DGYS. The one-car train is crossing under Highway 209, which parallels the former RDG Schuylkill Valley Branch from Pottsville to Tam... (more)

The Pottsville Job begins its trip back to Port Clinton after shifting the D.G. Yuengling & Sons plant at the end of the St. Clair Running Track. Ex-EMD demonstrator no. 1546 will lead the way cab... (more)

Leaf Peeper: Tri-State Railway Historical Society President Mike Del Vecchio snaps a photo of the Tri-State Members' Excursion during a photo stop along the Rockaway River. This location ... (more)

Weirton, West Virginia, is home to ArcelorMittal’s National Steel Corporation/Weirton Steel Division. Switching a cut of cars there is WSX SW1500 306. This switcher is the former Whitestone Su... (more)

Retro painted IHB 1512 heads west across the diamonds at Calumet.

Testing the Waters: As the Tri-State Railway Historical Society Members' excursion makes a photo stop along the Rockaway River, a woman creates interesting ripples in the water by dumping ... (more)

In 1972 and 1973, the Union Railroad purchased nine SW1500 locomotives from EMD. One third of them, 7, 3 and 4, were sitting outside of the railroad’s Hall Shops in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, o... (more)

A Progressive Rail crew handles switching chores at Cannon Falls, MN at the end of a former Chicago Great Western branch line that connects with Union Pacific at Northfield, MN. A rather interesti... (more)

A solo SW1500 sits tied down next to the yard tower in the small yard outside the Ford Stamping Plant in Hamburg, New York. While the switcher is lettered for the Illinois Midland, it is operated ... (more)

After dropping off the two tank cars they had coming into town, the CPR job ends the night moments away from tying down by passing by with two of three cabooses that they have in tow behind the on... (more)