Ludington & Northern

An unexpected quintet of LV SW8s rolls downgrade on the weed-grown LV Mountain Cut Off toward Laurel Run and Coxton. The oversize load visible beyond the SW8s was probably too large for Jersey Cen... (more)

The last day of the Season, Pfizer #2 sits with other units at the mueseum

A pair of former Lehigh Valley "Pups" brings three Conrail cabooses up towards R Tower on a cold February afternoon. These locomotives probably were assigned her during the Lehigh Valley... (more)

Ex Pfizer SW8 poses for a photo at the 11th annual night photo shoot at the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum. Special thanks to the host Tom Nanos and to Steve Barry for the lighting.

Sacramento Southern #2030, an EMD SW8, leads the California State Railroad Museum's excursion train on another trip through Sacramento during Union Pacific's 150th Anniversary Celebration.

A warm and sunny spring greets this new shortline locomotive to its new operation... This short line operated on the former Northern Pacific Yacolt branch from Vancouver, Washington's Rye Jct to Y... (more)

The leaves on the trees are a bright yellow as they glimmer in the afternoon sun shine, as the Lewis River dinner train rolls into Battle Ground Washington with former Southern Pacific SW-8 Now nu... (more)

Four routes from Mountain Top (summit of the grade) in Solomon Gap, PA, August, 1970. Five Lehigh Valley SW8 "pups" roll an unexpected westbound downgrade with an oversize load. They are utiliz... (more)

Not many places where you can see a RDC Budd, and SW8 and then a SD38

The new coat of black shines nicely in the back shop at the Heart of Dixie as the 2022 patiently waits for her new colors to dry before she heads out of the shop and starts working again. This un... (more)

A freshly painted locomotive #2022 shines in the sunlight on its first day of service since emerging from the paint shop at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum.

Back in Black
Sitting at the Heart of Dixie’s back shop, the 2022 has traded in her coat of blue for something... (more)