Though this was not my favorite paint scheme, it was and still is my favorite film, and hey, I celebrated any time any SP unit got paint in the latter days. Photographer unknown (great job BTW). ... (more)

Originally MRS.

In the latter years a butthead was hard to find (not as hard as an SD38-2!). I was glad to see this over ever near sundown.

What a great tpwn in the times before mergers.

The Wabash had a mainline that ran to Des Moines from Moberly at one time. The NS abandoned this trackage back in 1993. Today the Iowa Sothern operates about 25 miles of this trackage between Moul... (more)

Former United State Sugar Corp 203 is going through the rebuild program at Locomotive Specialists, and will soon be repainted and emerge as LOSX 203. Photo taken with permission wearing all requir... (more)

WAMX SW1500 1517 rests in front of the former MRS shop in St. Louis.

A northbound Soo Line transfer freight passes under Ogden Avenue overpass at La Grange, Illinois, on the afternoon of February 7, 1987. Soo EMD SW1500 No. 1400 is former Minneapolis, Northfield & ... (more)

Ex-Penn Central.

Early morning at Mill Creek, OK.

Alexander Railroad's weekday freight approaches east Statesville with interchange for Norfolk Southern.

The Denver Rock Island Railroad's 1083 (SW1500) works a cut of cars in an industrial area known as The Stockyards in Denver. Colorado.

Orange And Blue. GMTX 173 (née-Longview, Portland & Northern Railway [LPN] 130, SW 1500, 12/1969) spent the first 30 or so years of it life operating on a shortline switching between an In... (more)

Two Cliffs bottle trains meet at Lakefront yard in East Chicago. Both switchers still retain ArcelorMittal colors for now.

LRS crew has just cut one of the three SW1500s off their train to take some tank cars into Laurinburg. The two motors on the right will couple onto the rear of the train.