The south side of Chicago is full of treasures when it comes to trains. On the list of treasures is Maryland Pig Iron of Illinois' veteran Conrail SW8. Still in virtually untouched Conrail big blu... (more)

Grain dusted SD9 No3 idles after uploading a string of hoppers at Sierra Grain Terminal near Hughson Ca.

A treasure in Chicago's south side is Reserve Marine Terminals' former Santa Fe F7A #342L. Now leased by Horizon Rail as a rebuilt CF7, the 70 year old veteran (04/1953) is hard at work bringing a... (more)

Operating on The Bug Line, MSC 49-5601 prepares to deliver 4 empties to the CN. The lone coal car has been sitting in that same location for years now, facing an uncertain future. With the Romeovi... (more)

Archer Daniels Midland crew member throws a switch at their plant in Kershaw, South Carolina to begin moving cars about the facility. This switcher-type locomotive ws built for Lehigh Valley as LV... (more)

A union railroad train crosses the Monongahela river with empty coke hoppers and coil cars in East Pittsburgh past a couple of critters hiding in the weeds. The green and yellow 45 ton in the back... (more)

Cargill Grain in Commerce City, Colorado send their SW1200 to the yard.

Snow showers while the sun is shining catches Pacific Fruit Express #1048 at Strassburg, Colorado. The NW2 was built in 1946.

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)

Chop-top Center Cab. Former Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Metrorail 44-ton locomotive L002 is seen at East Coast Railroad Services in New Windsor, NY. The now u... (more)

Parked outside one the massive buildings at the General Electric Schenectady Service Center in Schenectady, New York is one of the plant's switchers, a GE SL-85 centercab. The unit is surrounded b... (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)

A pair of GP15-1's sits at the RCR Taylor Logistics Park just west of Taylor Texas.

A rare former AK Steel switcher locomotive sits at the service tracks at Davidson Yard.

It would have been nice if they had painted below the frame. Photo by "Boxcar" Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.