They had some stick-on lettering problems.

Across town the Rock Island was dying.

NIRC 3 shoves a work train over the Cal Sag Canal at Palos Heights.

Chicago & Illinois Midland SW1200, Road Nos. 18-23. No photographer listed on slide.

Gone green? Just gone! Conrail's Northumberland-Berwick local makes its way back on the western end of the former Lackawanna Bloomsburg Branch from Berwick to Northumberland for the last time. The... (more)

CWP&S SW1200 #51 at Pullman Junction, West Pullman Chicago, Illinois. Photo from my collection, no photographer listed on slide.

Assigned to the Ray-Carroll County Grain Growers elevator in Hardin, Missouri, is Ray-Carroll Co-Op SW1200 1221. This engine was built as Chicago & North Western 321 by EMD in February 1962. It ... (more)

ConAgra's SW1200 works the Commerce City Grain facility.

The cloudy sky is a harbinger of things to come for the Flats Industrial Railroad. With the announcement that their largest, and basically only customer Grain Graft will be closing the Cleveland f... (more)

United States Steel's Granite City Works is home to a number of vintage switch locomotives. Here at the massive facility, we see SW1200 #1244 shoving in with a bottle car. SW1200 #1191 can also be... (more)

Clearly a passenger unit has died somewhere as CN 1229 an SW1200RS does it's best to hustle passengers to Toronto at track speed with a 4 car train. There was no steam generator in the consist. ... (more)

Carrying the flag for the Canton. Canton Railroad 1203 (nee-MILW 2020, SW1200) and GP7us 1307 (nee-ATSF 2769, GP7) and 1364 (nee-ATSF 2765, GP7) sit outside the railroad's South Newkirk Street sho... (more)

Soo Line SW1200 2126 delivered in black with gold striping, built 01/55 - retired 10/92. No photographer listed on slide, from my collection.