Empire Coke's SW9 #48 at Holt, AL || April 1984

Half of the SMRR fleet idles away on this frigid sub-zero day. Any time they have to make a run up the line, they will shove these stored BSPX coal hoppers back into town, and then return once th... (more)

The Albany Port RR switches the Cargill facility at the Port of Albany during a small snowfall.

With a friendly wave from engineer Paul Davis, Kentucky & Tennessee SW9 #106 starts down the hill out of the yard and shop area at Stearns, headed "down the mountain" to the Blue Heron Mining Camp... (more)

One doesn't often associate Amtrak with coaling towers, but in the middle of the carrier's Ivy City engine terminal, a remnant of the past still stands. Amtrak SW9 792 swings around one leg of th... (more)

The Portland & Western's 1201 runs around a string of cars as it prepares to switch them around the east end of the three track yard in Newberg.

ex-CWP&S 51

A dreary winter day is fitting for this relic of Milwaukee Road's intermodal empire. A former Soo Line SW9 now working for CHS (ILSX) idles in the distance.

Luzerne & Susquehanna's Avoca Job heads east at Duryea Jct.

The L&S's Avoca Job returns up the RBMN Susquehanna Branch after picking up cars at Pittston Yard with a nice pair of switchers for power.

A Cargill switcher for the Port of Albany lays over for the weekend

The crew at Valley Grain in Kingston Ohio work to load NS grain cars on a cold December evening. The EMD SW9 is remote control equipped and is operated by the worker controlling the flow of grain... (more)

Meet at West Portal. On a rainy March day, an unusual visitor to the LV waits to enter single track- Pittsburg & Shawmut SW9 #236. View is looking east. Scanned from Ektachrome X.