Sunrise catches the Denver Rock Island Railroad's switchers ready for the day's action at their new facility in Denver, Colorado.

Third unit on the roster, this one was built in 1968 and will soon finish its twentieth year for SP. Photo by Tony Vanier. From my collection.

IHB 1502, 4021 and 2021 prepare to shove their last three cars over the hump at Blue Island Yard in Riverdale. All three units wear the IHB's updated retro scheme.

After picking up empty ingot flats and aluminum coil loads from North Plant, Arconic Terminal's inter-plant train hustles back towards South Plant through the picturesque countryside of Alcoa, TN.... (more)

NALX passes the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) at Kennedy Space Center. Taken with permission on a tour with the Florida East Coast Railway Society. A rare look inside the now extinct NASA Railr... (more)

The Denver Rock Island Railroad's 1083 (SW1500) braves the blizzard to shuffle some gondolas to a client in North Denver.

ILSX 942 shuffles a few boxcars around at Maverick Wines and National Sugar Marketing in the Industrial Park in Bensenville and Elk Grove Village.

Denver Rock Island Railroad's SW1500 #1083 heads back to the yard after working the local industrial area north of the Denver Stockyards.

Heavy snow does not stop the Denver Rock Island Railroad from delivering cars to customers in north Denver.

Southern Pacific SW1500s 2552 and 2632, now owned by Union Pacific, work the UP’s Huntington Beach Local. These two "Cruds" have cut a Centerflow covered hopper off their train to spot at an in... (more)

A former Mittal slug set works the West end of the Indiana Harbor complex.

With a hefty pickup from Cleveland Cliffs, the "Short Line" makes a shove move down the BP Lead in Whiting, Indiana. The crew will shove onto the NS and through nearby CP 502 to access h... (more)

Former WC SW1500 1552 sits in storage at Homewood.

IHB 1522 shoves the Cast Armor Job onto the Cast Armor lead at CP 100 under Cline Avenue.

The Beer Railroad: Digging through old photos, it seems that in my youth, I spent lots of time at the "Manny", which was owned by the Anheuser-Busch brewery in South St. Louis. MR... (more)