A track maintainer gives Milwaukee Road 740 a highball as it heads from the coach yard to the station, with another passenger train. Photo from the first ever "Night Photo Shoot" at the Mad River ... (more)
STILL THERE: Several weeks after it's arrival at the Illinois Railway Museum, ATSF 543 still sits on it's eight axle flatcar awaiting off-loading. This unusual switcher is Fairbanks-Morse H12-44T... (more)
In May of 1988 Fort Knox hosted what was called Gold Vault Days which consisted of several locomotives from various local railroads as well as model railroad displays. On display was one of thei... (more)
A FM switcher pauses at College Park station.
SPC FM H12-44 working at Midland, TX in 1991.
This was probably the last FM to operate on the SP. When we visited Bayshore this day everything else was stored at the roundhouse. Many of the switchers were scrapped at a little scrapper in Wh... (more)
At the time I didn't realize that SOO even had these. This unadorned late-version of the 1200 HP switcher was switching a lumber reload site.
Where old FM's go to work. This old H12-44 is actually the working unit for the large Cargill facility in Cahokia, Illinois. Although looking very rough it's still nice to see one of these old u... (more)
A crane and an old FM sit on static display as part of the KY Railway Museum's collection of defunct equipment.
A study in contrasting paint schemes: classic EMD passenger power vs. oddball FM switcher.
SP 2372 an FM H-12-44 awaits its demise at Schnitzer Steel’s scrapyard in West Oakland on September 23, 1975.
SP H-12-44 2379 at Bayshore Yard in San Francisco, CA.
lined up with WP NW2u 608 and UP GP30 849.
