Just outside of town along the Norfolk Southern AGS South District is Dunn Roadbuilders large Meridian facility. The GP8 was originally a Frisco GP7 built in 1950. Illinois Central Gulf rebuilt ... (more)

National Steel Corporation Weirton Steel Division (WSX) SW1500 306 switches cars at their facility. Built by EMD in January 1971 as Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 9288, this switcher was later renumbered... (more)

Delivered as Lake Terminal 1009 in January 1948, this NW2 appears to have been well-tended over its 25 years of service. I think Acipco had another EMD switcher in orange and green.

Coors Critter CORX 998 (SW1001) shoves a cut of special hoppers back towards the Coors brewing facility in Golden, Colorado.

A long way from its previous home, a former Wisconsin Central unit now waits to go on duty at a Columbia Grain elevator just east of Rudyard.

Route of the Rockets Belleville was once a busy Junction between Rock Island mainlines from Kansas City, Omaha and Denver. Passenger trains and freight heading for the Rocky Mountains p... (more)

Cargill Camouflage. The Cargill grain elevators in Gilman, Illinois are served by a very distinctive switcher, CLCX 9698, Alco 2SM. Chattahoochee Locomotive Company rebuilt this Houston Be... (more)

Looking spiffy in a newly painted makeover, Former CO rebuilt Chessie GP30M 2111 rests at the Conrad Yelvington Distributor facility near Wildwood Yard on a beautiful morning. The unit is used to ... (more)

In September 1984, near East St. Louis, the yard parallel along 14th Street in Granite City, Illinois, at the south end of the sprawling complex of Granite City Division of National Steel hosts a ... (more)

After dumping 13 cars, #3 makes its way to the mainline to prepare its runaround of the train. Closing in on its 69th year of service, #3 has been handling the brunt of the work for the past month... (more)

A Coors SW1000 takes a string of grain hoppers to the brewing facility in Golden, Colorado.

McElhaney Cattle Co SW1200 at Wellton AZ.

SSRX 1393 (MP15AC) is an ex MKT and UP MP15AC that can be found working at the Budweiser Brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado.

As the snow melting process continues from the milder temps, the Sanitation District heads west through McCook with an afternoon train of 13 loads. From here, the train is a little over a mile fro... (more)

That's a load of crap! On a beautiful winter's day, an afternoon run to the Willow Springs drying fields is made by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. SW1 #3, closing ... (more)