Cargill Glass Out. The Cargill grain elevators in Gilman, Illinois are served by a very distinctive switcher, CLCX 9698, Alco 2SM. Chattahoochee Locomotive Company rebuilt this Houston Belt... (more)

The diminutive size of the U18B is evident in this photo, where the diesel is looks hardly any bigger than the waffle-sided boxcars coupled to it.

SOO SW-1 320 crosses Fox River. 320 was local switcher kept at 1 stall engine house in Oshkosh. The 320 is now at the Duluth Museum in SOO black scheme. Joyce Norton Photo

With the massive Fort Point Channel drawbridge as a background, EMD-engined Amtrak RS3m 106 heads for South Station to grab an arriving equipment draft, which it will pull back to the Southampton ... (more)

Working as a South Station switcher, Amtrak RS-3 137 pulls the recently arrived consist of the Lake Shore Limited across the Fort Point Channel bridge on its way to Southampton Street coach yard i... (more)

.2001 swithes the yard at Valley Falls.

1973 I took an extended trip west in my Maverick with my Collie and made an early morning stop in Chihuahua at the shops.

Amtrak CF7 583 in faded Santa Fe paint has just pushed an outgoing equipment draft from Southampton Street Yard into Boston's South Station, while F40 228 prepares to depart from the adjoining tra... (more)

Freeport Switcher waits at Wallace Yard Freeport with the former Illinois Central offices in the background. At one time Freeport was a major junction. In addition to the Chicago to Iowa line Fr... (more)

Remote controlled GP38-2's move cars around in CN's Mobile Yard beneath Interstate 165.

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.

Portland Terminal S-4 sits between assignments at South Rigby Yard.

More commonly seen as road power, ES40DC 5476 shoves back on a cut of box cars while switching Pascagoula Yard.

GTW 5833 idles in Amtrak's 14th Street Yard preparing to switch out coaches in Union Station.

Cleaning out a bit of carbon, this 1951 GP7, built as ATSF 2688, shoves back on a stretch of hoppers unloading limestone at Vulcan Materials in Gautier, MS on the CSX NO&M sub. A common but good r... (more)