A pair of SD40Ns blow smoke while working the Green River yard as a westbound intermodal prepares to depart.

An NS GP60 still earns its keep switching cars at Simpson Yard in Jacksonville.

Built in June of 1980, WAMX EMD GP50 is still on the rails handling some yard tasks in Tuscaloosa, AL for the Alabama Southern Railway (ABS). The unit was originally built for the C&NW as their 50... (more)

Passing rows of stored boxcars, a former New Haven RS-3 renumbered and now working for Penn Central pulls a transfer cut from the hump into the westbound departure yard at Cedar Hill Yard in New H... (more)

Coupled up to the road power, 4450 was helping put an eastbound ready to leave Sparks

At first glance this looks like a New Haven RR scene, but the four-digit number on ex-NH SW1200 9190 indicates that in 1970 Penn Central is in charge at Maybrook, NY. The empty yard behind it symb... (more)

In pre-radio days railroads maintained private telephone networks with lineside phones at stations, junctions, and other key points, used by train crews to communicate with dispatchers and towers.... (more)

Former New Haven S1 0947 got the black dip paint job that transformed it into Penn Central 9418, but no lettering for its new owner. The anonymous Alco worked a switch job at Cedar Hill Yard in Ne... (more)

"Can I have my Hobart Tower well done, please?" The local transients of Los Angeles were happy to abided this order, unfortunately, as seen in blacked-interior and blown out windows of the ... (more)

This was once a common sight across the country, now rare: a classic EMD switcher working an urban yard. Boston & Maine SW9 1231 shuttled cars at Mystic Junction in East Somerville, MA, on a sprin... (more)

In later years the Western Maryland's pair of EMD BL2s were assigned to yard jobs at Hagerstown, MD, paired with homemade slugs for extra tractive effort. WM 82, seen working here on a winter day ... (more)

Air temp 112 degrees

The crew of a Conrail GP38 makes a switching move at Nevins Yard in Framingham, MA, while an eastbound freight led by a B23-7 waits for them to clear in order to yard the train.