After moving a few grain cars around, it's time to wrap it up for the day and park the old SW1 until the next call to action.

An old SW1 moving a couple cars at the large Hansen-Mueller elevator in Superior, WI.

Relco 511 basks in the early morning sun at the former American Italian Pasta Company plant (now TreeHouse Foods).

Dardanelle and Russellville SW-1 #16 was originally built in 1942. Now, in 2025 this little loco has more than paid for itself, still working at over 83 years of age. One of their customers is Ste... (more)

Dardanelle and Russellville SW-1 #16 was originally built in 1942. Now, in 2025 this little loco has more than paid for itself, still working at over 83 years of age. It's been no easy service eit... (more)

Agrex 1011 at Hadar, NE.

ComEd 15 (SW1) splits the semaphores at the Karstens crossing while leading the caboose train during the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Diesel Days event.

Southern SW1 2008 built August 1947.

Local Milwaukee Road switcher lays over at Marinette, WI

Short excursions run along the BNSF/CP mainline north of downtown St. Paul. Ex-WAB 110/NW 3110.

WRRX is taking the long way to Oak Ridge Tn.

Commonwealth Edison #15 prepares to lead the caboose train out of Depot Street. Built in 1950, this unit was assigned to Commonwealth Edison's nuclear power plant in Byron, IL. It arrived at the m... (more)

Ice Cold. Outside the Americold facility in Chambersburg, PA rests SW1 locomotive no. 8411, sporting a seemingly fresh coat of dark turquoise paint. Originally built as B&O 211.

The Electro-Motive Company (EMC) constructed a batch of fourteen 600-horsepower SW1 diesels for New York Central in early 1939. These were numbered NYC 600-613. Forty-eight years and four-months... (more)

Flowers at Flemington. The Black River & Western Railway's excursion train is departing Flemington Station with Pennsylvania Railroad SW1 no. 9206 leading, as seen through the flowering... (more)