WVN 52 has run around and recoupled to its coaches in preparation for the return trip to Kingwood.

Switchers SW1200 138 and 133 wait for their next duties at East Roper yard in August 1982.

On the way back to the Woss with a train of empties, #301 is crossing the Steel Creek Bridge.

Long time resident of Joliet (MVPX 15) has seen odd ball power come and go over the past few months. A couple of SD40-2's now keeps it company till they are sent out on their way.

Riverport Railroad switcher heading back to the engine shop after pushing a cut of cars to the sho.

Shooting from a crumbling pedestrian walkway, we see an Arcelor Mittal SW1200 pull a cut of coil cars from the plant in East Chicago.

Locomotives:
MTSX 8 SW1200

Simpson Railroad SW1200 No. 1200 waits on the main as No. 1201 pulls out of the siding with loads of forest debris.

SW1200 works the massive old style grain elevator in the old bottoms of central Des Moines. When loaded the cars will be picked up by Iowa Interstate to be handed off to NS at Peoria.

RSSX SW1200 353 sits in Joliet yard.

Sequatchie Valley Railroad 1210 has seen some better days, as the remanent of the Illinois Terminal paint is fading away into history. If only this 62 year old SW1200 could talk, it would tell us ... (more)

The Dubuque switcher waits in front of the Dubuque Yard office, one part of the Milwaukee Road shops. At the time the SOO still served several local small business. Somewhere I have slides of the... (more)