Alexander Railroad EMD SW1500 No. 11 has arrived at the small yard across from Borealis Compounds on their daily run from Taylorsville to Statesville to interchange with Norfolk Southern. Here the... (more)

Alexander Railroad EMD SW1500 No. 11 has just left the company’s engine house in Taylorsville, NC and heads east on their daily run from Taylorsville to Statesville to interchange with Norfolk S... (more)

IHB 1523 (SW1500) works an autorack pulldown job at the west end of Gibson Yard in Hammond, IN, while in the background, IHB 3861 (SD38-2) works a separate pulldown job.

The IHB 1516 sits on a siding just off CP GIBSON waiting to pull a cut. Just behind is the SVGX 7407, an SW10 serving Buckeye Terminals Oil.

NIRC 9 and 8, both SW1500s, lead a welded rail train through Northbrook, IL. It's rare to catch these units out on the mainline!

Commuter Cube. NJ Transit SW1500 no. 502 is seen laid up at Haines Yard in Pennsauken Township, NJ. The locomotive is the last of four such units rostered by the agency, and had been us... (more)

SW1500 2336 and slug 915 are switching in the yard at Chattanooga Tennessee.

Pulp-Free Puller. Knoxville Locomotive Works (KLWX) SW1500 no. 2240 is seen shuffling cars around the Tropicana facility in Jersey City, NJ, adjacent to Conrail's Greenville Yard.

Granite City Steel's fleet of SW1500 locomotives.

The Denver Rock Island Railroad's motors sit idle at their facility in Denver, Colorado.

Southern Pacific SW1500s 2552 and 2632, now owned by Union Pacific, work the UP's Huntington Beach Local. These two "Cruds" have cut a Centerflow covered hopper off their train and are ... (more)

Charlotte and Western rolls eastbound at Lowell with traffic for CSX at Mt. Holly.

Local assignment sits on the Industry Lead to Sim's Metal Recycling just off of Kennedy Ave.

Light Locomotive at Last Light. As the light of day fades from the sky, East Jersey Railroad and Terminal Co. SW1500 no. 321B is seen on the Constable Hook Industrial Track, returning t... (more)

Portrait of the Power. East Jersey Railroad and Terminal Co. SW1500 no. 321B was on switching duty on Friday, March 21, 2025, seen here returning from the chemical plant at the iMTT fac... (more)