Simpson switch job races the PSAP Bangor turn (seemingly) side by side on adjacent track at 6:30 AM. After 125 years in existence the final day comes Monday for this lumber railroad. The mill it ... (more)

Rio Grande SW1200 sits forlorn in the SLGW yard in Salt Lake City on Aug. 29, 1997. The 132 was built by EMD for the D&RGW in Dec. 1964. It was wrecked on the Southern Pacific at Roper Yard on Apr... (more)

BDRV 1202 leads a Flemington to Ringoes excursion.

Built in January 1966, Rio Grande SW1200 137 is seen working the yard in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on August 29th, 1973.

MN&S 32 leads a short train west across the Mississippi River on a warm and humid summer day in 1984. This was a couple of years after Soo Line bought the shortline but it continued to operate muc... (more)

Lokie line-up, a rare sight indeed. All four of the switchers were parked outside in a row while the roundhouse was getting a house cleaning.

Although the 1202 and her sisters are short-timers on their soon-to-be-defunct railroad she still has work to be performed. Here she is being rolled out of the RoHo for a day of work train duty e... (more)

Illinois Terminal SW-1200 780 and its train were in the clear at Bissell, Ill. for Illinois Central’s Train 21 “Green Diamond” to zip past on its run from Chicago to St. Louis on July 11, 19... (more)

The last log train highballs Dayton during a special move to and from the Dry Sort yard with the purpose of retrieving remaining rolling stock which had been stranded since the end of 2013 after t... (more)

After the last trip to Mill 5 at Dayton, Simpson 1201 gets a "not quite" final spin on the turntable, courtesy of the hardworking crew. In the foreground, like a stake through the heart... (more)

Log cars headed for the storage line. Today was billed as "The Last Run to Mill 5" for Simpson Railroad. It was the last time anyone would see a log train run the mainline of this soon... (more)

Today was billed as "The Last Run to Mill 5" for Simpson Railroad. It was the last time anyone would see a log train run the mainline of this soon to be defunct logging road. Two runs ... (more)

My friend, and fellow RP contributor (and Simpson Railroad Book author) Joel Hawthorn rides the Last Train from Dayton on a beautiful late spring day. Behind the 1201 is a string of center beam ... (more)

Looking out the back door, playing around with a slow shutter resulted in this frame at 1/10sec. Heading out-a-town with a load of dirt in a Western "difco" side dump car, pulled by the ... (more)

Spreading dirt over an old, unfinished stream bank restoration project near MP 2½ along Goldsborough Creek with a Western "difco" side dump car.