Washington Terminal utilizes the largest pool of small switchers in the Amtrak system, and three different models are seen among the four units in this shot. Two of which are one-of-a-kinds on Am... (more)

A must see (and ride) visit to the Northwoods of Wisconsin is the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad. Here, former Milwaukee Road 1616, an SW-1 built in 1940, rolls the family pizza train Northward... (more)

This took a ton of color correcting due to the multiple oddball light sources.

A quiet Sunday morning at Cenex.

A heavy snow squall falls upon the nation's capital in early March.

Ex-Milwaukee Road SW-1 862 hibernates alongside the DM&IR's 250-ton wrecking crane after a spring storm deposited a foot of wet snow.

While on a railfan trip to New England we stumbled across this Boston & Maine SW-1. I believe this to be in Manchester New Hampshire but never took notes because "I'll always remember where that i... (more)

Up close and personal with the lone SW1 still on the Amtrak roster.

Lehigh Valley 112 about to leave Flemington for Ringoes, NJ with the first Easter Bunny Express trip of the day.

The SW works the mail and express cars under the terminal. PRR class ES6 Ansco Color original

On the Panhandle side Passenger Terminal trackage downtown a SW1 makes a move from the adjacent Post Office handling mail cars. PRR Class ES6.

Luria Brothers SW1 # 31. From my slide collection by R. VARTABEDIAN

BN gained access to Winona via the Green Bay & Western bridge over the Mississippi River from Wisconsin. They operated a small yard and switched some industries. BN 94 is former CBQ 9150 and was r... (more)

Thermal Belt #1, the railroads only engine switches a cut of covered hoppers in Forest City.

The builders plate on this SW1 shows a build date of 10-09-1941 giving it over 72 years of service. And it's still going, working at the Cloquet Terminal Railroad in Cloquet, MN where it works th... (more)