Coors Brewing Company EMD SW900 No. C987 waits for more tasks at Golden, Colorado, on November 21, 2005. This 900 hp switcher was originally built as an EMD SW in May 1938 for Rock Island, and was... (more)

In late 2008, a Lancaster and Chester Railway crew works the GerdauAmeristeel on the former Southern Railway SB line. The plant makes rail spikes and ships out up to ten cars a week. L&C SW900 90 ... (more)

Light snow is falling on Coors engine 988 (SW900) as it sits on display at the Colorado Railroad Museum, which is right down the street from the Coors Brewery. The engine was built in 1938 and it... (more)

L&C SW900 #91 takes a few minutes to catch her breath at Circle S Feed Mill in Bascomville, South Carolina.

On March 31, 2014, I had chased the circus train from Columbia, South Carolina up the NS R Line to Chester. Since I was so close, I made my way to the Lancaster and Chester and caught LC 14 passin... (more)

Sole Survivor. Great Lakes Locomotive (GLLX) 6 (ex-McLouth Steel of Trenton, Michigan, SW900, EMD, 1954) is in Staunton, Virginia receiving much needed attention from Precision Locomotive M... (more)

L&C EMD SW900 #90 approaches Springdale Rd. in Lancaster, SC in a paint scheme similiar to what she wore upon delivery to the South Carolina shortline in 1965. Note the old siding to the left of t... (more)

Ex-GTW 7229 now works for EconoRail at the multilevel facility by Valley Yard.

ESPN SW900 #52 has found a pesky downed tree in the way at Bristol.

Lancaster and Chester #91 was the last SW900 built. It rolled off the assembly line in October, 1965 with sister unit #90. Fifty two years later, the end cab switcher is still on the L&C, though i... (more)

I certainly didn't plan it that way, but a neat shot from 11-11-11. The lone survivor of a very short-lived Conrail marketing plan-- Conrail Express. Much as airlines do with their regional part... (more)

L&C SW900 #90 brings a single car of lumber bound for Builders Supply as it approaches West Manor Road in Lancaster.

Lancaster and Chester Train 12 has GP38M-2 #2268 leading two sister GPs through Circle S with part of a grain train. The feed mill crew has made sure L&C SW900 #91 is out of the way to let the roa... (more)

Rocks As Needed Etc. On the afternoon of Tuesday, August 30, 2022, Hanson Material Service EMD SW 900 MSC 49-5601 had 4 empty hoppers in tow as headed towards the Route 7 bridge in Lockport... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Railroad EMD SW900 #90 leads LC 14 over a rural crossing in Chester County. Sshe spent fifty years working on the former textile railroad before being shipped off to another ... (more)