Twenty street crossings in less than two miles on 100-pound rail dating to 1927. That’s today’s Ellis & Eastern grinding away on a former Chicago & North Western branch through the residential... (more)

Hometown shortline Meridian & Bigbee sent this switcher for display during Meridian Railfest. It was built in 1954 for the Milwaukee Road.

Engineer Brock inspects his train before heading back up the hill to Maltby where he will drop off the loads.

The 1512 is sitting at the depot in Walled Lake just prior to pulling a Santa themed train.

Eastside Freight Railroad's SW1200 idles away at the Maltby siding before shoving north to the BNSF junction in Snohomish.

In an area where the railroad runs through deep woods STC 1200 steps into a sunlit corner on its way back to Shelton from the Dayton dry-sort yard. The afternoon was a very pleasant respite after... (more)

NOPB 71 awaiting its next work at New Orleans during the summer of 1973.

The 1202 is on the end of a log train moving through the back yards of downtown Shelton at the beginning of a trip uphill to Dayton. The bridge is the new one which, in February 2010, replaced th... (more)

This little SW1200 was sitting to pretty in the sun to pass up as it waits for transfer out of Clearing Yard.

Ready for shipment after rebuilding.

A rare IHB SW1200 (one of two left on the IHB roster) rolls eastbound through Hammond toward the IHB Gibson Yard with ballast cars in tow. I'm sure the days are numbered for this little guy...

This location is where the railroad runs adjacent to the Shelton - Matlock Highway. They've been using three locomotives lately to move logs to the dry sort yard at Dayton, one up front, two on t... (more)

Missouri Farmers Association SW1200 1242 works the grain elevator in Higginsville, Missouri. This engine was delivered by EMD to the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis in April 1965, with... (more)

Ray-Carroll SW1200 1211 sits with its stacks capped at an ethanol facility in Brunswick, Missouri, on September 16, 2010. But don't let the buckets on the stacks fool you - this engine is still i... (more)

IHB 2272, one of 2 operating SW1200's on the Indiana Harbor Belt, leads a yard job past Calumet Tower