RPCX SW1 738 sits under the St. Louis Wheel at St. Louis Union Station.

SOO SW-1 320 crosses Fox River. 320 was local switcher kept at 1 stall engine house in Oshkosh. The 320 is now at the Duluth Museum in SOO black scheme. Joyce Norton Photo

The Portland Traction heritage unit has brought OPR 803 back on property after being sold of a decade ago. The unit is here to replace OPR 801 which was burned up in the Labor Day fires.https://ww... (more)

The little guy has been pushed aside at a local facility by a SW1500 and supposedly awaits transfer t a new home.

Northern Railcar SW1 #1 emerges from their Cudahy shops in March of 1987. The shops are the former Harnischfeger crane facilities next to the C&NW Old Line (now UP). An Alaska RR E-unit lurks in t... (more)

Passing through very late autumn colors, Anthracite Railway’s former Amtrak SW1 has an excursion train at Powder Valley, Pennsylvania.

NIRC 1, the oldest operating locomotive in revenue service pulls a single electric bi-level by the soon-to-be unmanned BI Tower. The tower itself is rumored to be closing soon, and may be torn dow... (more)

NIRC SW1 #2 serves as the shop switcher at Metra's 47th Street Facility. On a cloudy afternoon, it's seen doing its switching work. Unlike it's sister (NIRC 1), #2 is rarely viewed by the public e... (more)

Columbus and Greenville SW1 #505 sits outside the roundhouse. #505 was built September 1947 as Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (TRRA) #505

CSDX SW1 3 shoves its train back into the Plant in Stickney.

In a lucky "sucker hole" of sun, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago heads east back to the plant in Stickney. SW1 #3, built in 1952, leads the way. With MP15D... (more)

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.

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

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)