The operations area of the Denver Rock Island Railroad runs adjacent to the Colorado National Guard base which is located in an industrial area known as The Stockyards. Here we see DRIR 1083 (SW1... (more)

KANSAS CITY March 10 1979 -- Kansas City Southern SW1500 4328 and slug 4250 handle switching duties. My photo.

SW1500 and NJT 4103(on loan) appear to be set for some tree trimming duty today.

CSXT SW1500 awaits her next assignment in Leewood Yard in Memphis Tennessee. She was later painted in the CSX YN3 paint. She has since been retired. I shot this in 1999 on print film.

DENISON TX (January) 1975 — MKT SW1500 55 stands by for a switching job. EMD built the 55 (b/n 34096) in September 1968. At the merger with Union Pacific it became UP 1327 and on June 13 2000 it... (more)

Beech Mountain RR leased SW1500 ex CSX 1118 runs light over the lower submarine bridge returning to the loadout for its final cut of cars.

Working The Old USX Yard. A US Steel SW1500, currently assigned to the Gary Works mill, is seen working cars at the old USX Yard on a sunny morning. Trailing is one of the former EJ&E SW's ... (more)

IHB SW1500 1501 leads a coke train East through Hammond.

Union Pacific's Torrance Local heads south on the railroad's Torrance Industrial Lead behind UP SW1500 1006 (ex-Norfolk Southern 2322; née-Southern Railway 2322) and Cotton Belt 7282 (ex-Missouri... (more)

METX 9 a former Cotton Belt unit (SSW 2590) works a ballast train used to dump rock at the Edgington Street grade crossing rebuild project in Franklin Park.

IHB SW1500 1520 works a pulldown at the East end of Gibson Yard.

METX 9 a former Cotton Belt unit (SSW 2590) works a ballast train used to dump rock at the Edgington Street grade crossing rebuild project in Franklin Park.

Cliffs SW1500 304, still in ArcelorMittal paint, leads bottle cars into Indiana Harbor.

Rows of Conrail ore jennies provide a backdrop for a gathering of SW1500s at Greenwich yard in South Philadelphia. Ore and coal were once two of the primary commodities handled at this former PRR... (more)

LTEX SW1500 1562, a former CN/WC unit, switches the West end of the Cliffs Indiana Harbor complex.