In August 1980, we ran across this Bicentennial GE 44-tonner at a quarry in Bellevue, Ohio. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

On May Day 2022, both Will County Coal Handling SD20's sit quietly. 1802 is literally parked at the end of the line, while 1801 is awaiting a crew to shove a string of coal empties out of the plan... (more)

One of Vale's locomotives has just coupled onto a cut of ore jennies delivered from CP from Vale's Coleman mine. They will haul the cars a short distance to be unloaded.

A former Illinois Central GP10 loads cars at the ADM's plant in Creve Coeur.

A bottle train out of the Cleveland Cliffs' Indiana Harbor plant slows to a stop in IHB's Lakefront Yard. A former ArcelorMittal SW1001 has the honors on this sunny afternoon. Not long after this ... (more)

SSRX 1393 (MP15AC) works the Budweiser brewing plant in Fort Collins, Colorado.

"Into the Sunset"
CEMX GP9 661 runs light back into the Cemex facility in Medley, FL during sunset. The 661 was built in November of 1954 for the Florida East Coast, and is n... (more)

"Oldschool Florida East Coast"
CEMX GP9 661 shoves a cut of rock cars out of the Cemex facility in Medley, FL during sunset. The 661 was built in November of 1954 for the Flo... (more)

As darkness approaches, a veteran pair of Granite City Works' SW's move through the steel plant. It's usually rather uncommon to see these units running in pairs. They were split up about 20 minut... (more)

An MVPX SW1200 works the North Star Blue Scope Steel facility in Delta, Ohio on a sunny March morning, pulling a string of bulkhead flats loaded with steel coils out from the west side of the plan... (more)

"Boston Bug" One of Boston's many railroad oddities - AARX 101218, a remote-controlled ALCO 125 Ton switcher sits dormant at Ciment Québec, a local industry in Everett's Coke Wo... (more)

Ex CR 8666 also Ex Lehigh Valley 252 sits in the lonely Greenidge power plant railyard. The unit would be loaded on a trailer and prepared for transport to Williamsville Depot just two days later

CHS switches out the elevator in Superior with their SW7. The brick buildings in the background both burned down this past winter.

GCSX 1191 shoves a string of cars through the plant, preparing to disappear between the buildings of US Steel's Granite City Works. The old CB&Q veteran was hard at work, working several cuts of c... (more)

A couple of well-weathered switchers work within the Jones & Laughlin Steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio. The GE center cab unit is unidentified, while the S2 is in the scheme of defunct Youngstown She... (more)