Former Birmingham Southern unit. Stars may have fallen on Alabama but no sunshine did. Not this trip anyway.

A chartered day out with a short period freight and two “donkeys”. What could be better?

Making an unusual move, two Conrail SW900’s pull a half-dozen SEPTA Silverliver IV;s through Perkiomen Junction, Pennsylvania. I’m not sure of the circumstances for this movement.

Conrail’s OCS and Track Geometry fleet was based in Reading, Pennsylvania. Here a former Reading SW900, looking almost like a member of the fleet, shuttles a car around Reading yard. Note the ho... (more)

ADBF 836 is shoving a cut of cars into the siding at Environmntal Quality on Detroit's east side. The Adrian and Blissfield owns and operates this section of former Grand Trunk Western's Hol... (more)

Circle S Ranch Feed Mill opened up in 1998. At the time, the L&C rostered all EMD end cabs, but with the new traffic online as well as a later purchase of the former Southern Railway SB Line in La... (more)

Shortly after departing the Hanson Material Service plant, MSC 49-5601 leads five empties over the Des Plaines River in Romeoville. The 67 year old SW900 is making the slow trek out to the old EJ&... (more)

Ex Grand Trunk Western switch engine taking the day off

Emerging from the forest on the former EJ&E Romeoville Branch (also known as "The Bug Line"), Hanson Material Service's SW900 leads three loads into the plant to be unloaded at the custo... (more)

On a very hot and humid morning, Hanson Material Service’s SW900 brings cars dropped off by CN back into the plant on the former EJ&E Romeoville Branch.

Four years into Conrail’s existence, the engine terminal in Reading, Pennsylvania was still frequented by former Reading switchers in Reading paint. Here an SW900 is in the company of two SW1001... (more)

Five Lancaster and Chester EMD switchers rest over a weekend on the Haddon House spur in Richburg

Lancaster and Chester SW900 #90 at AmeriSteel in 2014

One run out of the day of trips between Fort Lawn and Lancaster pulls into Lancaster back in 2005. Passengers will disembark and go through the museum while the crew makes a run around move for th... (more)