Small and mighty is a good way to describe this 1960's era switcher that is moving cars around for the Savannah Port Terminal Railroad. Though it is dwarfed by the large containers it is haulin... (more)

Working hard to move stacks around the Savannah Port Terminal Intermodal Transfer Yard, this classic era 1960s switcher is waiting for the conductor to give the word and shove back into the yard. ... (more)

A pair of NPBL SW1200s working at Portsmouth in March 1975

Since we were ahead on interchange traffic and behind on industry switching the KCT Train 311 was utilized to switch customers this cold snowy evening rather than transferrring tonnage to our Clas... (more)

Transfer KCT Train 311 comes across the UP Diamond at Sheffield on KCT Main 1 as it prepares to round the curve towards KCS Knoche Yard with cars from both KCT Mill Street and Blue River Yards. <... (more)

Engineer ST Jamerson lays on the whistle of the SW1200 heading up KCT Train 217, returning to KCT Mill Street Yard with 37 cars from UP Armourdale Yard. Brakeman JA Sutphin also keeps a vigilant ... (more)

KCT Train 105 is hard at work kicking out the inbound Blue River train which was brought in earlier by the 310 transfer job.

Cars from that train are almost exclusively billed out to the int... (more)

KCT Train 217 has a pair of SW1200's at the helm with 37 cars for BNSF Argentine Yard, seen here preparing to depart KCT Mill Street Yard.

The crew will pick up 3 BNSF units at the former Sa... (more)

Switcher 1205 prepares to lead KCT Train 217 out of Track 403 back to Mill Street Yard with 34 cars as KCT Train 505 starts their work for the day in Track 402.

Locomotives: WAMX 1205, WAMX ... (more)

Reputed to be the tallest grain elevator in the world, Harvest States Cooperative CHS-1 is serviced by a pair of Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer EMD switchers. It always seemed to me that this w... (more)

Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer SW1200 105 and NW2 103 work the sidings serving the Harvest States Cooperatives grain elevator in Superior, Wisconsin. The LST&T, originally jointly owned by the ... (more)

After waiting for UP track crews to clear the switches of N Portland Junction, PT 1201 rolls a train into Barnes Yard in front of Mount Hood.

On a holiday weekend everything was laid up and picking was easy but we missed getting a road train on this now defunct former Bethlehem Steel operation.

Respondek's power at America's Central Port sits silent with the day's work complete. Some of these units are always silent, but most of them are runners.

Locomotives: RRC 1239, CP 8166, SO... (more)

After pulling 3 cars at KCT 12th Street Yard, the SW1200 and its short KCT Train 217 wait to enter BN 1 and proceed back to Mill Street.

The switcher turns 58 this month, built in February 1... (more)