All alone in the weeds. It's a sad ending for Illinois Central SW14 #1450 as it lives out its final days at the National Railway Equipment facility in Dixmoor, IL. It was built new for the IC in 1... (more)

Former CSX GP39 4299 sits at NRE in Dixmoor. With a busted ditch light and front door, this unit has certainly seen better days.

All The Pacifics? Was originally built for Missouri Pacific in 1/1970 as 759 (SD40), eventually being renumbered as MP 3059 (SD40), and being rebuilt and later going to Southern Pacific 8634 (SD40... (more)

An Indiana Harbor Belt SD20, SW1500, and yard slug pull hard as they drag a long cut of cars out on the hump lead at the IHB Blue Island Yard. The locomotives let out a puff of smoke as they cross... (more)

After taking headroom across the CSX Chicago Heights Subdivision at CP Harvey, IHB SW1500 1524 and Slug 477 shove back with a Blue Island Yard hump job.

A golden dinosaur. IHB SD20 2923 takes headroom at the west end of Blue Island Yard (CP 129) as it makes way across the Little Calumet River. A neat addition to the shot is the original IHB caboos... (more)

An assortment of power sits at NRE Dixmoor waiting for an unknown future.

NREX 109 sits with string of old diesel locomotives at National Railway Equipment in Dixmoor, IL.

The picked apart hulks of an Indiana Harbor Belt NW2 and an Illinois Central GP9 sit among the sea of parts at the National Railway Equipment Co.'s facility in Dixmoor, Illinois. This is the end o... (more)

IHB train BA8 takes headroom at the west end of Blue Island Yard with a GP40-2/GP38-2 combo.

After pulling out of Blue Island Yard for headroom, IHB train BP12 shoves back into the yard with a Harbor GP38-2 and a GP40P-2 (one of three).

Showing fresh paint courtesy of NRE, a pair of Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Geeps await their finishing touches prior to returning home. Tom Golden photo.

Amtrak SW1000R 793 sits at NRE with a uncertain future.

Slowly getting swallowed by plants and vines this former US Steel SW9 sits in the back of National Railway Equipment's Dixmoor facility awaiting an uncertain future.

AVR GP40-3 4001, still wearing KCS paint, sits in the NRE shop at Dixmoor.