Mobil Grain's former Modesto and Empire Traction GE 70-tonner 604 parked at Mobil Grain's reload terminal in Aylesbury

Mobil Grain's former Modesto and Empire Traction GE 70-tonners 608 and 604 parked in Aylesbury.

Mobil Grain's former Modesto and Empire Traction GE 70-tonners 608 and 604 parked near Ehman Farms' ex Saskatchewan Wheat Pool grain elevator in Craik. Mobil Grain Ltd's subsidiary Last Mountain R... (more)

Founded in 1923, the High Point, Thomasville, and Denton Railroad was a 20-mile short-line railroad owned by the jointly CSX Transportation and (Norfolk Southern Railway owned) Winston-Salem South... (more)

For about a decade, a train sat on display at the historic Piedmont & Northern Railway depot in Belmont painted for the Milltowne Railway Line, a fictional railroad. The train had been moved to th... (more)

MP, Missouri Pacific caboose 13067, gives a friendly wave as he passes GE70 tonner on the interchange with P&NW, Prescott and Northwestern 24 at Prescott, Arkansas. July 27, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff ... (more)

Not as well known as Pidcock or other shortline empires, the Evans family possessed a prosperous little stable in the Tarheel State. Here one of their 70-tonner's Cooper-Bessemer engines produces... (more)

I think this was my first visit to this prosperous classic family-owned shortline. I was interesting place with an assortment of critters running all over, even occasionally going to interchange ... (more)

Considering that short little stack I would guess this is the predominant end of the unit we would see. As a note: GE advertised the 70 Ton model's electrical system as being as simple as a Chev... (more)

While visiting Railfair '99 in Sacramento I crossed paths with the M&ET doing some switching.

SP 5100, a GE 70 tonner, was built in March 1949 and is seen here outside the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR. The railroad originally acquired about 20 of these switch engines from Ge... (more)

Modesto & Empire Traction's 11pm Job has just picked up nearly 100 cars from the Union Pacific interchange in downtown Modesto and is headed onto the railroad's trackage, which begins with a few b... (more)

The Modesto & Empire Traction kept their fleet of 70-tonners in immaculate condition, with these little switchers lasting many years beyond the point most shortlines had upgraded to much larger po... (more)

For about a decade, a train sat on display at the historic Piedmont & Northern Railway depot in Belmont painted for the Milltowne Railway Line, a fictional railroad. The train had been moved to t... (more)

Paint is peeling on CN 30, seen outside at Exporail. CN 30 was once one of their main switchers, but no longer runs.