Photo by John T. Kennedy, from my collection.

This former Union Railroad unit eases up to make a joint with some freight car, just another day. No name on the slide.

An ex PC unit, still showing evidence thereof, is switching an Amtrak train. Photo by Dave Petke.

#3 is strolling right along through Lyons with 13 recently dumped empties.

Paralleling Canal Bank Road, SW1 #3 hauls its train back to the plant in Stickney.

With the morning dump complete, 70 year old CSDX SW1 #3 brings its train out to the main to prepare its run around. The John Deere escavator, which assisted in the dump, waits to head back to its ... (more)

CSDX SW1 3 shoves its train of empties into the plant in Stickney.

Ex-Jersey Central Lines

It's true. Shit really does roll downhill. Here's an up close and personal look at the "dumping process", at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's dryin... (more)

The little switcher that could! On a beautiful Spring morning, CSDX #3 is in charge of 13 empties from the drying fields of Willow Springs. Bound for the plant in nearby Stickney, the train... (more)

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's water treatment plant In Stickney Is seen in the background, as SW1’s #’s 3 and 2 are In the process of shoving 26 empties into... (more)

For me the favorite EMD butthead is this little 600 HP beast and the Evans-era in NC provided a nice paint job on this former Union Railroad unit. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

At the end of the Iowa Northern's Oelwein Sub is Transco Railway Products. This repair facility has called Oelwein home for over 70 years. The place had to fight to keep rail service connected as ... (more)

SW1s have been the power of choice at this CHS elevator for years. Missabe ore dock is across Saint Louis Bay in Duluth.

The Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad (reporting mark TCKR) was a short line freight railroad that operated in western Pennsylvania between the boroughs of Export and Trafford, where it connected t... (more)