SW1200 works the massive old style grain elevator in the old bottoms of central Des Moines. When loaded the cars will be picked up by Iowa Interstate to be handed off to NS at Peoria.

RSSX SW1200 353 sits in Joliet yard.

Sequatchie Valley Railroad 1210 has seen some better days, as the remanent of the Illinois Terminal paint is fading away into history. If only this 62 year old SW1200 could talk, it would tell us ... (more)

The Dubuque switcher waits in front of the Dubuque Yard office, one part of the Milwaukee Road shops. At the time the SOO still served several local small business. Somewhere I have slides of the... (more)

A faded and grimy former Northern Pacific SW1200 sits in Columbia Falls with covered stacks awaiting its fate. It was originally built as NP 128 in 7/1955, S/N 20321.

PT 140 runs back to yard, crossing the interesting bike trail signal.

A former ADM SW1200 sits in the weeds at the former EJ&E Joliet Yard.

Rare SW1200 with GE narrow gauge trucks

An ex-Dakota Rail SW1200 now serves the Heartland Corn Products ethanol facility in Winthrop. The TC&W RR provides the crew for this RCL.

This little Penn Central train consisting of an ex-New Haven SW1200 and an old coach was informally known as the Jitney, and it shuttled the four miles between the New Haven passenger station and ... (more)

A Western Consolidated Cooperative SW1200 on the TCWR basks in the fall afternoon sun.

La Negra Juction is a complex of freights distribution for mining at Atacama desert ,the rare EMD SW 1200 with GE narrow gauge shoes (trucks)shunting some sulfuric acid tank cars .

MVPX ex-Cargill SW1200 15 sits in Joliet yard.

New Haven SW1200 654, not yet renumbered six months after Penn Central took over, exhales and accelerates as it approaches the short tunnels at East Haven, CT. It's heading up train BX-32, the loc... (more)