MIXX 3151 and CEFX 1545 sit outside the repair shop at Mid America Car in Kansas City, Missouri.
KANSAS CITY Sept 29 1980 — Precision National Corp. NW2 PNCX 1012 (c/n 6686) is tied down at Armourdale Yard. EMD delivered the unit in January 1949 as Baltimore & Ohio 563. It was renumbered to... (more)
Denver Rock Island Railyard. Three Denver Rock Island Railroad locomotives are seen sitting at the railway's facility in the North Washington neighborhood of Adams County, CO. SW1500 no... (more)
The Conrail caboose track at E'port yard.
I shot this at Wilsmere Yard near Wilmington DE on July 8, 1978. A Baltimore & Ohio SW1, circa 1940, and a former Chesapeake & Ohio NW2, about nine years newer, sit next to a boxcar with a roof ha... (more)
The Niles Canyon Railway yard in Brightside, Ca. With it's panoply of engines, one can still feel what it was like to work with one of those horses.
The Railserve switch job is pulling cars from the Bridesburg Philadelphia Honeywell (now Advansix) plant alongside Interstate 95 on its way to Meadows Yard where they interchange with Conrail. ... (more)
Former CB&Q unit looks like it's had the course. Note that A-frame is not a building behind the locomotive but a rock screen. Photo by unknown. From my collection.
Cradle-to-Cradle: After decades of service to the KCS Railway, this 75-year old EMD NW2 now wears the colors of the Vulcan Materials Company. Here it sits with GMTX 96 (Ex-BN and BNSF) as they awa... (more)
The new switcher for Endeavor Ag & Energy at Wayland, MI, Looking at the rails, it will probably be a long time before its actually needed.
A two-step "waist" ahead of the cab marks this unit as an early version of the NW2. Note the trucks. SCL was an early adopter of roller bearings.
Originally B&O ex Laurinburg & Southern recently relettered. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.
Looking rather worse for wear this old horse is probably down for rebuilding into a CAT power PLW2000. The frame behind looks like it may have be owned by IC. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my... (more)
KANSAS CITY KS March 10 1979 — Kansas City Southern NW2 4200 is ready for a switching job. My photo.
Southern Switching Company NW2 No. 1865 sits outside the company yard office in Abilene, Texas.