On the morning of October 7, 2019, St. Maries River Railroad EMD SW1200 No. 501 pulls a load from Stimson Lumber in Milltown to the yard in St. Maries, Idaho. The diminutive train is trundling ove... (more)

Way Back Machine: Now almost 14 years ago, in a scene that can't be repeated. Terry Respondek himself skins 'em back, clearing the carbon out of 1206 and 604. They are dragging loads of ste... (more)

The Milwaukee Road and Kansas City Southern operated a joint agency in Kansas City

The Dominion Atlantic local freight from Kentville has just arrived at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, behind CP SW1200 8132, clearing the way for the daily passenger run to Halifax. Soon the RDC laying ov... (more)

GRW 324, a former EJ&E SW1200, passes a handful of older CN equipment as it shoves a train into Kirk Yard in Gary, Indiana.

May the 4th Be With You… A pair of Pacific Harbor Line SW1200s bring a train of autoracks to Union Pacific’s Dolores Yard early in the morning. PHL 38 was originally New Haven 658 (... (more)

A bad ordered bilevel car was ready for pick-up at Joliet's Washington Street Coach Yard and NIRC 3 got the call to head west from 47th Street to retrieve it. The old Milwaukee Road veteran slows ... (more)

Metra SW1200, NIRC 3, leads 3 cars as it diverges from the St. Charles Airline to the Metra Rock Island District at the 16th Street Tower junction, crossing over CN's Freeport Sub. These cars, inc... (more)

Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern EMD SW1200 No. 34 rests at Soo Line’s Shoreham Yard locomotive facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in September 1984. The switcher was built in May 1965 and is... (more)

Central Illinois Switcher heads to BNSF Ashland Yard with scrap steel loads. The 1206 was recently painted in Burlington inspired scheme.

A work trip took me to Saint Maries, Idaho for the first time since 1977 or so when the Milwaukee Railroad was still operating. I found a locomotive that's the same age as I am sitting at the dep... (more)

New York New Jersey Rail is a switching and terminal railroad. Here is one of their locomotives parked at their small engine yard off Port Jersey Blvd. The railroad serves at Conrail's Greenv... (more)

Sometimes, the best catches are the ones that come unexpectedly. NIRC #3, an SW1200 that was built in 1954 as the Milwaukee Road 2048, leads three cars over the 1919-built St. Charles Airline lift... (more)

94 & 48 approach Lake Wales whilst working the Frostproof Turn from West Lake Wales to Frostproof

Built by EMD in April 1965 as Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis 1239, this SW1200 is now owned by Respondek Railroad Corporation. RRC 1239 was photographed in Granite City, Illinois, on ... (more)