BNSF SW 1000 #3638 and BNSF SW 1200 #3514 smoke it up pulling out onto the main line

NOPB SW1000 #103 awaiting work at New Orleans, LA in the summer of 1973.

Both of these locos were sitting at CEECO (Coast Engine and Equipment Company) for a few years. When CEECO ceased operations last summer they were brought to the Tacoma yard only about a mile away... (more)

Mobil SW1000 working at Mulberry, FL in 1990.

The crew of the Cloquet Terminal Railroad puts their former Duluth and Northeastern EMD SW1000 #35 through it's paces and switches cars in and around the Sappi Paper plant on a cold Minnesota earl... (more)

Coors Brewing Co. No 997 moves some empty barley hoppers back toward the grain elevators.

D & RGW switcher 142 goes about its business at North Yard, Denver, in September 1981.

NOPB 106 working the Cotton Warehouse Yard on July 4th,1996. Both the 106 and the old Yardmaster Shack would soon be replaced with Boise engines and a new office/car repair shed complex. The pai... (more)

A lone switcher trys to stay warm during a cold winter.

In early evening a pair of switchers roll the Duluth Transfer off the former NP Grassy Point bridge linking Superior and Duluth.

DRGW switcher 146 takes a short rake of cars from the DRGW North Yard to the BN Yard in Denver in December 1981.

DRGW switcher 140 stands in North Yard, Denver with UP caboose 25662 on Christmas Eve 1981.

A crew works on switching duties at BNSF's Rice Point Yard in Duluth, MN as several ships are getting to the tail end of winter layup at the Port of Duluth.

A quiet Sunday in June 1981 finds five of the seven SW1000 D&RGW North Yard switchers neatly lined up - 146 142 141 143 and 145 - 140 was elsewhere in North Yard while 144 was at Burnham Works.

Even at this late date this rather rare unit doesn't have roller bearing trucks.