Lancaster and Chester heads northward on the former Southern Railway trackage during their first week of operations on the branch to the ADM facility in Kershaw, SC.

EE 17 was built for the CP back in 1955 as a SW900. Today in 2020 it is still actively earning it’s keep on the Ellis & Eastern in South Dakota. The SW9 was found here working at Concrete Materi... (more)

EE 17, a neat SW900, works the Concrete Materials plant on the northwest side of Sioux Falls.

NYOG #14 switches at the Port of Ogdensburg along the St. Lawrence River.

Ex conrail 8635 rests behind a facility she serves in northeast Philadelphia, where the locomotive has seen service for many years. the locomotive still regularly comes to life to service local fa... (more)

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

LRSX 911 at Sapulpa, OK.

Motive Power Resources in Minooka.

Way Back Machine: In another scene that can't be repeated, in the summer of 2006, RRC 14 runs around steel coil cars on what is left of the Wabash UD line. The only remaining customers at t... (more)

Way Back Machine: In another scene that can't be repeated, in the summer of 2006, RRC 14 services one of the remaining customers on what is left of the Wabash UD line as a Metrolink light r... (more)

Nearing its destination, #49-5601 leads two cars out of the forest. My dad James (1951-2015) worked at Material Service for 30 years and spent a lot of time on and around this unit, back when it w... (more)

After picking up a delivery of two cars from the CN, MSC 49-5601 heads for the plant to make its own delivery. Built in 1954, the classic SW900 was looking good on this sunny morning.

Making its first pick-up this year, Hanson Material Service's SW900 begins the trek back to the plant in Romeoville on a nice, Spring morning. The former EJ&E Romeoville Branch is known as the &qu... (more)

The New York & Ogdensburg Railway heads to the Port of Ogdensburg with a train of windmill blades.