On our way to downtown Minneapolis, we stumbled upon this by chance. Schreier Malting Company's SW1 was working General Mills' Elevator T on this snowy December morning. This switcher was built fo... (more)

The plant switcher at GATX’s tank car facility in Colton, California, is MP14B 7000, constructed in March 2010 by MotivePower Industries on the frame of Southern Ontario Railway SW1200 (an "... (more)

A CHS job works next to the Ryerson in Superior.

WAMX 4173 leads a rare daylight T001 through Zenda and passed a local corn elevator switcher.

LDCX SD40-2 2022 made a wrong turn at Swan Landing and ended up in Jasper! This immaculate, former CP SD40-2 5968 is on its way to Rycroft, AB to be the new elevator switcher.

ex IC 9480 (SW9 switcher)

MJRX 1021 makes a fine grain elevator switcher at the large elevator along the UP main at Gothenburg, NE. Built in January 1960 as Southern Ry. SD24 no. 6315, it was acquired by Illinois Central a... (more)

A former Southern Pacific tunnel motor and former BRC switcher form an unlikely pair residing at the shuttle elevator in Berthold.

Mid America Car's EMD SW1 sits outside the car shop.

As I was coming home from an evening on the Mohawk Sub, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I passed the Big GE turbine Plant as both of the rare 85 ton centercab switcher beasts were parked outside... (more)

American Motive Power Inc. constructed their own shop switcher from a variety of locomotive parts that were on hand, completing what they jokingly call a SW10.5 in 2008. There is no frame number ... (more)

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.

A Cenex Harvest States (CHS) subsidiary South Central Grain switcher sits on the elevator track adjacent to the DMVW main line at Napoleon. With South Central Grain having operations at Napoleon,... (more)

Former Reserve Mining SD18 No. 1229 idles quietly in the afternoon sun at the Western Milling facility in Famoso as the silhouette of a CAT wheel loader pours grain into a tractor trailer in the b... (more)