CSDX #3, one of the Chicago Sanitary District's three venerable SW1's, shoves 13 empties to the loader in Stickney. The train just completed its trip from the dumping fields in Willow Springs.

Random centercab at Andersons Plant Nutrient along the US Rail mainline near Walton.

A pair of 45-ton Kokomo Grain center cabs pull a car from the RIP as the third one watches and laughs at the others doing all that hard work... The red one is also a 45-ton originally built as USA... (more)

Chicago Sanitary District #2 leads a cut of empties back to the plant as it follows along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Another major steel mill in Northwest Indiana is the Gary Works, located just off of Lake Michigan in Gary. A pair of their remote control switch locomotives prepare to go to work on a sunny morni... (more)

Harvest States Cooperatives SW1 200 resting in the morning light at the Harvest States Elevator in Superior August 1990. The 200 was built as Portland Traction Co. 200 in March 1953. This is a ver... (more)

Field of....poop. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (Sanitary District of Chicago, for short) is the only railroad in America (and possibly the world?) that transports... (more)

Can you see the big blue? RP20BD 5406 was a demonstrator for R. J. Corman Railpower Locomotives (RPRX 5406, exx-NS 3609, neé-Conrail 5021, B36-7, 11/1983) and now works at Foster Farms in Kingsbu... (more)

An Erie Coke Corporation switcher pulls along the shore of Lake Erie with a string of loaded coke hoppers in Erie, Pennsylvania. These loads will be interchanged to the Buffalo & Pittsburgh via CS... (more)

Conrad Yelvington's SW9 works the CSX Kaley Yard near downtown Orlando. Though one of the more obscure facets of Florida railfanning, Conrad Yelvington's locations throughout the state offer a var... (more)

VITX SW1200 3526 slowly loads grain cars at the Viterra facility in Sexsmith, AB.

Former Army motor, built in 1951, served in South Korea and was also used to haul Titan Missiles with it's sister (see ID 453047). Now on loan to FNOR from Kirby Farms.

CHS 2117 heads light into the elevator in Superior.

Consumers Energy switchers in the coal yard of the power plant along the shores of Lake Michigan

The Metropolitan Water District of Greater Chicago had a minor derailment earlier in the day after picking a switch under Harlem Ave which put #4 on the ground along with four dump cars.