For me the favorite EMD butthead is this little 600 HP beast and the Evans-era in NC provided a nice paint job on this former Union Railroad unit. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

At the end of the Iowa Northern's Oelwein Sub is Transco Railway Products. This repair facility has called Oelwein home for over 70 years. The place had to fight to keep rail service connected as ... (more)

SW1s have been the power of choice at this CHS elevator for years. Missabe ore dock is across Saint Louis Bay in Duluth.

The Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad (reporting mark TCKR) was a short line freight railroad that operated in western Pennsylvania between the boroughs of Export and Trafford, where it connected t... (more)

Former Lehigh Valley SW-1 #114 is in charge of the Halloween Express as it hauls the train full of passengers through Ashland.

Portland Traction Co. SW1 number 100 a.k.a. "The Most Famous Diesel in the Northwest". Reckon that might be so, but that other locomotive behind it, the 1127 I think, well it's big in So... (more)

In a view from the Polk Street overpass, Conrail EMD SW1 No. 8429 rattles through trackage approaching Chicago Union Station in May 1983. The elderly locomotive was built for New York Central in M... (more)

Former PRR SW1 no. 9206 is seen sitting at the Black River & Western Railroads shops in Ringoes, New Jersey.

OPR 100 pulls the ORHF 10th anniversary train. Follow me @j.po_railphotos for more photos and videos or trains!

Built for the New York Central.

How Far Has This Engine Gone In Its Life? Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago CSDX 1 (SW1, EMD, 7/1952) was hauling a string of loads from the processing plant to &qu... (more)

CSDX 2 and 1 finish their morning duties at the drying fields in Willow Springs. The cars in the foreground were dumped not long before this photo. With the 26 cars of human waste all dumped, the ... (more)

Spiffy Amtrak EMD SW1 No. 736 switches a cut of Amfleet and Heritage passenger cars out of Chicago Union Station below Harrison Street Tower in May 1982. Because of the sale of air rights above th... (more)

WWRR 8408, sporting B&O colors, takes a nearly sold out weekend trip to Hockessin. 8408 has a long history on the Landenberg Branch, being assigned to Baltimore Division of the B&O for the majorit... (more)

WWRR 8408, sporting B&O colors, takes a nearly sold out weekend trip to Hockessin. 8408 has a long history on the Landenberg Branch, being assigned to Baltimore Division of the B&O for the majorit... (more)