A Minnesota Transportation Museum excursion departs the roundhouse with a CB&Q caboose, looking old school except for the ditch lights.

St. Maries River Railroad, STMA 501 idles while the Engineer Derail gets his orders in the early morning of August 2, 2019. The SMTA 501 was built for the Milwaukee Road in December of 1954 as the... (more)

A pair of GRW SW1200s still wearing EJ&E green work the USS Gary Works. From this angle, you'd still think this is during EJ&E days.

U.S. Steel's Granite City Works was indefinitely idled in late 2023, forcing the lay offs of nearly 300 employees. During my recent trip to the area, there were multiple movements being made into ... (more)

GRW 317 and 303 make up a Gary Railway slug set as they bring 5 cars out of Blast Furnace #4.

This critter calls Gavilon Grain Company home in Central City Nebraska.

Originally PRR, >PC>CR. Appears to have MU only on one end. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

Usually their power was looking good but this switcher seems a bit worse for wear when shot by Jim Satterwhite. Photo from my collection.

From a high up areal view inside of U.S. Steel Gary Works Plant, a former EJ&E SW1200, 317 is seen shuffling some molten steel around the plant as sunset is underway.

Soo Line 327 awaits the next assignment as it shelters in the roundhouse in Gladstone, MI in May of 1986.

Powering America. Former Elgin, Joliet & Eastern SW1200 318, and former U.S.S. SW1500 226, both now Gary Railway rostered locomotives, are seen with a train of petcoke hoppers that are in t... (more)

SSRX SW1200 #1109 pulls a cut of cars destined for scrapping at Western Metals Recycling. #1109 retains its original number from being built for the Missouri Pacific in 1963.

Perhaps the most cheerful looking thing in Alton (sorry C of C) this TRRA alumnus is one of the switchers shuffling cars at a large metals recycler. Taken with permission, PEP etc.

The old Illinois Central logo is still in great shape on the side of the cab of BUGX SW1200 #1497. The locomotive is now being used by the Alabama & Tennessee River Railway.

With a locomotive consist that you could only dream of, actually happened in real life on the Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, due to many locomotive issues. BUGX SW1200 #1497 still wearing its ... (more)