This diminutive SW1, built in May 1940, was on its last legs (and seventy years old) when this picture was taken in late 2010. This switcher has been replaced by an ex-MP unit. This unit was o... (more)

Double headed SW1s!! Here is a local job switching the Marinette, Wisconsin Milwaukee Road yard in the late afternoon. Kodachrome II film.

A vintage former EJ&E SW-1 heads past the Northeastern Hotel on its way to switch.

Although the shipping season is over on Lake Superior, grain elevators in Duluth and Superior remain active handling the loading of rail cars for movement to mills.

Maroon and gold SW1 1378 moves loaded grain cars from Elevator M on a code blue afternoon. The shuttered lake vessel American Victory hasn't sailed since 2008 and its future is uncertain at best. ... (more)

This former Illinois Central (Columbus & Greenville) SW-1 makes a rare appearance at the south end of the large CHS grain complex. Providing a nice backdrop is the idled ore carrier Edward L. Ryer... (more)

LV 112 at Black River & Western's yard in Ringoes, NJ.

Lehigh Valley 112 with the next to last excursion on the Black River & Western for 2013.

Belton RR 504, a 600-hp EMD SW-1, came off TRRA in St. Louis, and was doing its work at Smith, Texas on March 16, 1972.

St. Joseph Terminal EMD switcher No. 2 handles Santa Fe's Combine 2415 in the yard at St. Joseph, Mo. ATSF mixed train service 73-miles from its mainline at Henrietta, Mo. to St. Joseph was fast... (more)

When Potlatch sold their paper mill in Cloquet to Sappi shortline Duluth & Northeastern was included. Due to that sale the shortline's name was changed to Cloquet Terminal and a new attractive re... (more)

When Potlatch sold their paper mill in Cloquet to Sappi shortline Duluth & Northeastern was included. Due to that sale the shortline's name was changed to Cloquet Terminal and a new attractive re... (more)

A former EJ&E SW-1 that is over 70 years old delivers a modern GenSet to CTRR's shop complex. CTRR bought this former Modoc Academy unit and is in the process of lettering it and painting the unde... (more)

It's actually fun to watch the seemingly endless parade of log trucks, large equipment and trains working in harmony as they move around the Sappi Fine Paper mill yard all going about their respe... (more)

The much smaller CTRR #31 1941 built SW1 is dwarfed by today's excess height modern boxcars now used by the big Class 1 railroads to move freight. It may be small but it can move them around just... (more)