Note safety bars on this end.

Looking more like models, Hallett Dock's two EMD switchers rest on a quiet Sunday morning at Dock 5 in West Duluth. The green No. 12 traces its lineage back to N&W while No. 11 is a former C&O NW-... (more)

Former Peoria & Pekin Union NW2 #400 built Oct 1947 still earns its keep at the Ludlow Coop Elevator Co. in Paxton, IL. Got pretty lucky with this one as they needed to take some headroom to move... (more)

Turned off, 550 rests for the night in Export, PA

Having seen better days, 550 rests (and rusts) for the night in Export, PA

ex Peoria & Pekin Union 405

ex Peoria & Pekin Union 405

ex Peoria & Pekin Union 405

Borrowed power on the newly formed Wisconsin Central.

Sadly, the NW2 in this picture, originally built in 1948 for Southern Railway, has recently been scrapped. Behind the NW2 sits an FP7 delivered to Milwaukee Road in 1950. There is talk of making... (more)

Borrowed power on the newly formed Wisconsin Central.

ex CKSI (Carthage, Knightstown & Shirley RR) 819, nee IHB 8819

Awaiting the next passenger train to switch, GN’s EMD switcher 105 idles at St. Paul, Minn. Union Station, April 6, 1970. No. 105 was now a part of the Burlington Northern family.