Two second hand locomotives sit at the Tyson Foods plant in Monroe, North Carolina back in 2012. Laurinburg & Southern NW2 #127 had been the plant switcher here for many years. It was initilly bui... (more)

Built in 1949 for the Peoria & Pekin Union, #405 has found a new home.

Old Diesels and Fallen Flags

Indiana Harbor Belt 8739 rusts away in the company of Conrail and Wisconsin Central locomotives on a cold and rainy night at the Larry's Truck ... (more)

Three ex-PBNE and one former CR switchers live out their remaining days on the Lehigh Valley Rail Management's deadline in south Bethlehem.

UP NW2 1044, a GP9 and DRGW SD45 no. 5327 have a transfer at what I believe was the wye that connected the Rio Grande to the Western Pacific in Salt Lake City. The Rio Grande station is in the bac... (more)

BN NW2 465 and SW1200 216 sun themselves outside the Interbay roundhouse in Seattle. The 465 sported a steam era headlight, and the former GN switcher dates back to July 1939. BN 216 is a former N... (more)

Niles Canyon Railway's Southern Pacific NW2 switcher poses in the sun next to the two semaphores just south of the Sunol terminal.

A pair of venerable IHB NW2s brings an autorack train west from Gibson Yard past Hohman Tower. Tom Golden photo.

The car ferry 'Badger' leans to the starboard side as a C & O switch crew gently places a cut of cars onboard, loading for a WB trip to Kewaunee, WI.

Former C&NW 1003 is passing through backyards in Boone as it takes headroom on the electrified trackage that links the B&SV's Boone Station to downtown.

NW2 2213 brings two boxcars and a cab through the railroad gulch on the west side of downtown Nashville.

Fresh from the paint shop, IHB 8830 works with an OSHA Orange NW2 in East Chicago. Tom Golden photo.

When you think of BN and/or Streator IL, you likely think 'big-time' railroading. You would not be wrong, but there was another side to Streator and the former CB&Q, as seen in this photo of Q's ... (more)

The Reading and Northern’s corporate roots are the Blue Mountain & Reading, a 13-mile short line connecting Hamburg with a connection with Conrail at Temple, Pennsylvania. Later developing an ex... (more)

Delivered as Lake Terminal 1009 in January 1948, this NW2 appears to have been well-tended over its 25 years of service. I think Acipco had another EMD switcher in orange and green.