Granite Mountain Quarries SW9 4744 is ex Missouri Pacific 1250, built in 1951. The quarry near Little Rock has long been a source of MP/UP company ballast.

If you like old-school switchers then you'll appreciate this SW1200 working the Commerce City Grain facility.

Just outside CSXT's Cayce Yard sits the small storage area for Commercial Metals. The facility is serviced by 2 industry switchers at any given time. With their primary power down because of an ... (more)

The Coastal Transportation Company Frozen Fish Handling Terminal in Seattle uses a Plymouth ML-8 switcher to move refrigerated rail cars. The company use a fleet of ships to move frozen fish and o... (more)

Ideal Cement's NW2 sits in the same spot as it has for 10 years, in Cañon City, CO.

Slowly getting swallowed by plants and vines this former US Steel SW9 sits in the back of National Railway Equipment's Dixmoor facility awaiting an uncertain future.

Bug Slug

Countless Alco switchers were rebuilt with Caterpillar or Cummins engines, and sold to small mine operations throughout Appalachia. Most had their cabs removed or sealed s... (more)

Former ConAgra SW900 003 at the Richardson Pioneer grain terminal in Corinne.

ConAgra's SW1200 was built in 1966 for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. It now shuffles grain cars at the large silo in Commerce City, Colorado.

ConAgra's 51 year old SW1200 works shuffling grain cars at the Commerce City Grain elevator north of Denver.

One of the rarely photographed locomotives in the Columbia area rests in the former American Italian Pasta Company Plant. It switches various cars for the plant and has done so since roughly 2005.... (more)

Just as morning light gets over the mountain, the Evergreen yard switcher returns to the yard after switching the plant's power station. The locomotive has been recently repainted in a tribute sch... (more)

Fresh from the paint booth, South Dakota Wheat Growers SW1 #865 awaits movement along the Indiana Harbor Belt for a transfer west to home rails. Tom Golden photo.

The Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company shuttle crosses Bloody Tanks Wash. The lead unit is ex-MP 1126.

Ex NW GP35 rebuilt as a GP38 serves the Port of Beaumont TX. Photo taken from a public road.