PRLX 711 at the Progress Rail facility at the Mojave Airport industrial park.

I stumbled upon this switcher all masked off and met some nice folks working on giving it new paint not far from the Amtrak station.

ex-Laurinburg & Southern SW9

Niles Canyon Railway's Southern Pacific SW9 #1195 rolls over the last bridge before reaching Niles, CA.

At sunset on a summer evening, a Boston & Maine SW9 works the largely empty yard at White River Junction, VT. Milepost 14 gives the distance to Windsor, where ownership of the Connecticut River Li... (more)

Survivor. Juniata Valley Railroad 446 (née-NYC 8983, SW9) moves in to switch out Joe Krentzman & Son Inc. on Thursday, November 17, 2020. A quick glance to the foreground reveals a number ... (more)

Two of the more interesting members of Union Railroad’s fleet of EMD switchers stand with stacks capped outside of the shops at Hall, Pennsylvania. The Union purchased two TR5 “cow and calf”... (more)

The Everett Railroad local is working in Claysburg, Pennsylvania on a crisp March morning. It is seen dropping a CN box car at a local industry.

Juniata Valley Over The Juniata River. On the morning of Friday, Novemeber 20, 2020, Juniata Valley Railroad 2106 (née-Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad Company 236, SW9, 11/1953) heads towar... (more)

Weyerhaeuser's outbound Woods Railroad train crosses the Cowlitz River between Longview and Kelso.

Smurfit Newsprint rolls down Blaine Street in Newberg with empties for the mill. The cars had just been set out at the interchange by Southern Pacific's last train on the Newberg Branch. On Monda... (more)

Returning to the mill with empties, Smurfit Newsprint Corporation's ex-Rock Island SW9 rolls through downtown Newberg, Oregon. The job had just switched out the interchange with Willamette & Paci... (more)

Willamette & Pacific's McMinnville Switcher arrives at Newberg with empties for the pulp mill. The Smurfit switch engine had brought loads up from the mill, and will return with the empty cars WP... (more)

At Newberg, Oregon the Smurfit Newsprint Corporation had a railroad that ran a little over a mile from their pulp mill to the Southern Pacific. Most the line ran in the middle of Newberg's Blaine ... (more)

With multiple yard towers occupied, it is a busy day at Collinwood Yard. While a SW9 traverses lite through the yard, a manifest freight is seen entering the yard behind it. Bob Zwiers photo.