A rather interesting unit works the GATX plant in Hearne Texas on a very hot Texas July day.

Soo Line "Twin Ports" switchers working one of the elevators on Rice's Point in Duluth May 1980. Both units were built by EMD in September 1953 for the original Wisconsin Central. The 21... (more)

Four Pittsburg & Shawmut SW9’s bring a long train of empties to the loader at Dora, Pennsylvania. The 50-ton hoppers in this train were outlawed from interchange, either due to age, friction-bea... (more)

Pittsburg & Shawmut’s Mahoning yard, located along the Mahoning Creek a few miles geographically east of Reesedale, Pennsylvania, was largely inaccessible. Here a pair of the road’s SW9’s wo... (more)

With ten loads in tow, Pittsburg & Shawmut’s Brookville turn heads back to Brookville at Markle, Pennsylvania.

A GMQX EMD SW9 switcher shuffles empty cars around the main plant area. Over the next few days these cars will be loaded and then passed off to the Union Pacific as a unit train.

JVR-1 is working the Long I.T. as they shove towards Greenbrier Rail Services.

Looking faded but classy in this old scheme this unit was doing some industrial switching. And Dig those markers.

Santa Fe EMD SW9 1429 (1420-1438) A Mike Bledsoe Photo.

M&B 901 heads light back to Milford for the last move of the year.

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel (WPSC) SW9 A-413 is the former Union Railway 563. This engine was built as Duluth Missabe & Iron Range 12 in March 1953, and sold to the URR in 1963. (Allenport, Pennsyl... (more)

PB&NE No.35 has a cut of slag cars in a scene of industrial America. Bethlehem was, of course, a huge generator of inbound and outbound rail traffic. Mills once proliferated in the eastern Pennsyl... (more)

A CHS job works next to the Ryerson in Superior.

The Cenex Harvest States is in the process of spotting cars at the Superior elevator as it passes by the veteran ore carrier, Edward L. Ryerson. The Ryerson has been in long term layup here in Sup... (more)

Lehigh Cement's locomotive sits at the back of the plant overlooking the small town of Leeds, Alabama. The trackmobile seen outside the plant seems to have taken over its job. Any locomotive infor... (more)