"Preparing the Lehigh Limited"

With Morristown and Erie's 110th anniversary excursion only days away, the yard in Whippany was at capacity with 13 Private cars there o... (more)

A old U.S Steel switcher sits in Pine Yard.

ex CR 8480, exx PC 8480, nee NYC 683

Amtrak SW1 No. 732 switches four baggage cars at Harrison Street Tower at the south throat trackage of Chicago Union Station in a view from the now-gone Polk Street overpass. This tower which toda... (more)

One crew member waits in SW1 15, while his colleague uses Alco 18 to shove cars into one leg of the Union pacific wye. A third crew member is getting cars on the other leg of the wye (dropped ear... (more)

Built by then-new EMD (formed by the merger of General Motors' EMC and part of Winton Engine on January 1, 1941) in December 1941, Amtrak SW1 737 is still alive and well 73 years later! Th... (more)

NREX's shop switcher, a vintage SW1, idles away in Dixmoor.

New Hope and Ivyland's SW1 #9423, date unknown. Built by EMD for the PRR in 1950, #9423 survived into the Penn Central merger in 1968 and was renumbered 8523, and then later as Amtrak #'s 252 and... (more)

Anthracite Railway operated several excursions while it was the operator of the northern portion of the ex-Reading Perkiomen branch. Here is one of those excursions, with their ex-Amtrak SW1 in ch... (more)

Carfloat service between Frisco's (former Alabama, Tennessee and Northern) yard and a tank farm across the Mobile River on Blakeley Island started in the 1930s and lasted into the BNSF era. This ... (more)

CTRR #31 and crew pass by the historic Northeastern saloon and hotel on the way home after a day of switching the Sappi mill.

Almost done for the day, CTRR #31 positions the loaded log cars from the lower tracks up to the track where they feed the logs into the plant. After they spot this cut it's quitting time.

The utility person stops in for a visit with the crew on board CTRR SW1 #31 while they sit and wait for the other CTRR crew on board SW1000 #35 to move some cars before they go back to work.

After the bigger SW1000 #35 was done for the day, SW1 #31 still had some switching to do. Here the crew pulls loaded log cars from the wood yard up to the track where the grapple will unload the... (more)

An unusual gathering of equipment on the Wisconsin Great Northern includes a former Milwaukee Road SW1 and a doodlebug built in 1913 by St. Louis Car for the Southern Traction Company.