The Port of Shreveport owns two Baldwin RS4TC switchers. These switchers, numbered 3001 (ex USA 3001, ex USA 1269) and 4021 (ex Army) are operated cab first and in tandem nose to nose. The Por... (more)

Was driving through Rock Island, IL back in 2011 and came across this guy in BNSF's lower yard. It's amazing what you can still find out and about. Of course, helps to arrive during "Train Festi... (more)

NS #2379 waits for its next assignment at a tie loading facility

Switchers and Stacks: An LVRB job powered by an SW1500 and two MP15DCs drags a lengthy cut of intermodal cars to the Norfolk Southern interchange adjacent to the Lehigh Line. These cars we... (more)

Republic Steel Corp. (River Terminal Ry.) SW7 No. 98 switches molten steel in the Cleveland, Ohio steel mill. This mill along the Cuyahoga River, which was known for burning in this era, was merge... (more)

H&MC's only locomotive (ex-Everett RR 8933 / CR 8933 / LV 282) heads to the south end of the line to retrieve some covered hoppers from storage. Freight car storage is an important source of incom... (more)

Southern NW2 #1036 working at Greensboro, November 1977.

A pair of former Frisco switchers shove gondolas loaded with scrap towards Rices Point as a CN ore train arrives overhead.

GTW 7265 spends a slightly snowy first day of spring at Bay City.

Although the shipping season is over on Lake Superior, grain elevators in Duluth and Superior remain active handling the loading of rail cars for movement to mills.

Compressed air is your friend in the winter, just ask this CHS crew as they use air from their former Soo Line SW9 to clear fresh snow from a switch.

Maroon and gold SW1 1378 moves loaded grain cars from Elevator M on a code blue afternoon. The shuttered lake vessel American Victory hasn't sailed since 2008 and its future is uncertain at best. ... (more)

Some very obvious size comparisons here as a diminutive GE centercab muscles a much larger covered hopper while a massive lake ship undergoes repairs during winter lay-up.

This former Illinois Central (Columbus & Greenville) SW-1 makes a rare appearance at the south end of the large CHS grain complex. Providing a nice backdrop is the idled ore carrier Edward L. Ryer... (more)

Rio Grande's first SW1200 switcher awaits a call to serve at Roper Yard in South Salt Lake. The 130 was built new by EMD for the Rio Grande in Dec. 1964. While serving on the SP, it was wrecked an... (more)