ILSX 900 (SW8) heads light power over the Chicago River over the old Milwaukee Road turn bridge on its way to Goose Island. This day was the end of history for the Goose Island Branch. With Chicag... (more)

The Denver Rock Island Railroad will occasionally use their SW8 to shuffle cars in the stockyards service area when their SW1500 is not available.

On a quiet Sunday afternoon, Boston & Maine locomotives including an SW8, an F7, and a GP9 wait out the weekend inside the roundhouse at the B&M's Boston Engine Terminal in Charlestown, across the... (more)

This former New York Central EMD-SW8 is Strasburg Railroad's newest in the fleet being built in February of 1953.Today it mostly serves as one might expect as the railroad's primary freight switch... (more)

The Chicago Terminal is seen pulling what could be last train off of Goose Island as it crosses the Chicago River at North Ave. Six weeks prior, they spotted several cuts of tank cars on the Isla... (more)

The Chicago Terminal is seen gathering up storage cars on the Goose Island Branch as the City of Chicago continues removing the rails along Kingsbury Street,

Yreka Western switches out the Timber Products mill east of Yreka.

SSRR (ex US Army) EMD SW8 No. 2008 ready to depart for an excursion on the Sacramento Southern Railroad.

The dismal fourth day of Conrail finds a business-as-usual scene at Bethlehem. It’s not that way everywhere, as the Lehigh Valley road power is gone, and there’s a big presence of the despised... (more)

Eighteen of the Lehigh Valley’s SW8’s were equipped with dynamic brakes. Here one of them has been set off in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. Part of the Lehigh Valley roundhouse can be seen in the d... (more)

Still in its as-delivered 1950 paint scheme, Lehigh Valley SW8 254 works near R Tower in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Switching a tank car.

A new landmark is taking shape in lower Manhattan as Lehigh Valley SW8 274 switches a carfloat at the railroad's Jersey City float bridge, located on what today is a totally redeveloped waterfront... (more)

After arriving into SAC on the Coast Starlight, i was able to check out the CSRM facilities in Old Sac.

An ex-Lehigh Valley SW8 switches the west end of Allentown Yard. This perspective best illustrates the dynamic brake option unique to eighteen of the LV’s SW8’s. The primary need for dynamics ... (more)