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BNSF SW1500 3429 is paired with Santa Fe GP50 3183 on the Duluth remote job as they switch Rices Point.
A pair of Union Railroad SW1500's work Job 2A on a cold morning at the US Steel Edgar Thompson Works in East, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This job is responsible for bringing in cuts of loaded ore hoppers from the Union Railroad yard along the river and swapping them with the empties being dumped at the mill.
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URR Edgar Thompson Works
East Pittsburgh, PA
URR Job 2A (Iron Ore; East Pittsburgh, PA)
URR 8 SW1500 Blt. 1973
URR 2 SW1500 Blt. 1972
Conrail, CR ex-Reading MP15DC's 9630- 9626- 9621- 9629 with ZBB-137 on the ex-Reading line at CP Burn, Allentown, Pennsylvania. May 27, 1978. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
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After setting out a couple of coil cars, two Cleveland Works Railway switchers start to head off for their next job on a beautiful April afternoon. Cleveland Works Railway switches the Cleveland-Cliffs steel mills south of downtown Cleveland, along with a couple of other customers like the Zaclon plant to the left.
31 years ago VTR SW1500 501 is assigned to the Florence Switcher. The VTR had a pair of these, the 501 was lettered for the VTR and the 502 was lettered for the CLP. The job is seen crossing Vermont route 3.
Scanned from a slide K64 Pentax K1000
A lone SW1500 leads "Run 8", KCS train Y-KC108-20", across the AS&B Bridge over the Missouri River with a transfer from NS's Avondale Yard to KCS's Knoche Yard.
Lately, KCS transfers can draw anything from road power to Geeps, but seeing a switcher being used is downright rare, as the few that remain in town are typically only used on industry and yard jobs in and around Knoche. 3/20/22.
IHB #4020, the Harbor's ex-CN widecab GP40-2, works the Blue Island hump as IHB #1505 pulls across CP Harvey after switching the transload off Halsted on a late February afternoon.
KCS SW1500 no. 4349 pulls down into the east end of Knoche Yard for a new cut of cars to sort, as the late afternoon sun lights the scene beautifully.
This was on the KCS' final day of operations, and this particular yard crew had just rolled by the business train, freshly polished GE's, and tents filled with local dignitaries that were being courted (flic.kr/p/2otb8iM), all while they just went about their jobs as usual, though with the added stress of having 300 bosses less than a mile away, along with all of the local news channels, and railfans like me hanging out to watch. I can only imagine what a weird day it must have been for all of these crews.
Two Southern Belle 70Macs and a gray SW1500 leading a NB freight along US 171 just South of Leesville.
New England Southern's SW1500 has the first half of the loaded military train in hand as it heads south past Brochu Nursery in Concord on a beautiful morning. With the former B&M White Mountain Branch only seeing a few freight moves a year, typically just 2 cars at a time for 3M in Tilton, this move from Canterbury to Concord was quite a sight.
Metra SW1500's #8 and #9 lead retired highliners across the St. Charles Airline bridge in downtown Chicago Illinois
GMTX 129 (ex-SP 2551) - one of two SW1500s used by this operation - works storage tracks on the dry side of the flood wall near the Watco Sauget Cahokia Marine Terminal in Sauget, IL; across the Mississippi River from downtown St. Louis. I rarely see them moving or outside the fence here, so this was a nice find after an early release from work for the holidays. I believe this is ex-GM&O trackage.
Sadly, the Cahokia Power Plant on site here, long an iconic 6-stack coal-fired behemoth visible from miles around, has largely been dismantled and will soon be completely gone.
Former Frisco MP15 3704 and SW1500 3429 switch Jeff Foster's Duluth warehouse in sweet late afternoon light.
A solo Union Railroad SW1500 shoves a cut of loaded coke hoppers into the yard on the east end of the US Steel Clairton Mill Works in Clairton, Pennsylvania along the banks of the Monongahela River. The crew will break up this cut of cars as they sort the loads for NS from those for the Union Railroad.
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Union Railroad
Clairton, PA
Unknown Symbol (Yard Job; Clairton, PA)
URR 9 SW1500 Blt. 1973
Cambria & Indiana power lays over at Revloc, PA on June 7, 1991, awaiting its next assignment. Front to back we have MP15 No. 19, SW1500 No. 17, SW9 No. 41, SW1500 No. 16, and MP15 No. 20. Shortly, a crew would arrive and spot a train of empty hoppers at Ebensburg.
Working at the west end of the US Sugar's stub ended Sugar Yard in Clewiston, Florida, an SW1500 shoves empties back towards the yard tracks after unloading at the dumper for the sugar processing plant in the background. This is one of the railroad's Dump Jobs, which run 24/7 during the harvest season to keep up with the trains of raw cane sugar coming from the harvest.
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USSC Sugar Yard
Clewiston, FL
USSC Dump Job (Yard Job; Clewiston, FL)
USSC 202 SW1500 Ex. UPY 1222, SP 2677 Blt. 1972
IHB #1516 is in Lakefront Yard waiting to take NS B09's train into Michigan Avenue after #49, the westbound Lake Shore Limited with a Phase 7 P42DC leading in the background, goes past.
After receiving track from CN RTC, the 114 job with IHB 1522 (SW1500) shoves across EJ&E Bridge 631 over the Indiana Harbor Canal, enroute for IHB Whiting Yard on the CN Whiting Branch in East Chicago, IN. Taken: 1-10-20. With IHB handling most of the traffic on this branch, CN RTC still controls the bridge after acquiring the EJ&E in 2009, even though CN runs a couple trains a week into Whiting Yard for interchange with IHB and the BP Refinery.
KCRR SW1500 3408, built as SLSF 323 in October 1968, sitting silently at KCRR Stateline Yard on a sunny November afternoon wearing fresh Jenks Blue with a Missouri Pacific inspired livery. KCRR 3408 unexpectedly received new paint earlier this week, and will soon work the former MoPac territory in the West Bottoms once the locomotive's transition is complete.
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UP Kansas City Metro Subdivision
KCRR Stateline Yard
West Bottoms, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
November 16, 2025
Canon EOS 77D
Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS
It's a fine spring afternoon as the 07:30 south yard switch crew is at beans, while a southbound WC freight is about to depart towards Chicago from WC's Shops Yard.
WC 1556
North Fond du Lac
"Shops Yard" Wisconsin
April 1989
The crew of a Shamokin Valley train picks up a pair of covered hoppers from the Shamokin Carbons facility southwest of Shamokin, PA. This company produces carbon and graphite products for various industrial uses. It is a small reminder of the region's once-booming anthracite coal industry.
CWRO 1550 shoves a cut of gondolas back into an Arcillor Mittal facility deep within Cleveland's industrial valley.
A pair of former Espee engines, a GP35R and an SW1500, are the power for KCTL train Y-310 on this beautiful late summer morning as they move north up Track 79 of the KCT North-South Corridor at Old Union Depot Interlocking with a transfer from KCT's Mill St. Yard to CPKC's Knoche Yard. 9/1/23.
On today's edition of Find The Train, URR 66A blasts out of Clairton with coke loads for the E.T. Works as seen from the other side of the Monongahela River in Glassport, Pennsylvania. The train is just about to cross the enormous truss bridge leading over PA 837 just south of the Irvin Works.
An SD70ACe is on the point of UP train UEOTT1-30 threading its way through the West Bottoms at Hickory St on the UP KC Metro Sub, coming off Main Track 1 onto Main Track 3 to head for North Cypress JCT via Big Mary. Here, they're passing the SW1500 for Jaguar Transport Holdings, LLC's new Kansas City West Bottoms Railroad, which was delivered here at State Line Yard by last night's YFX80R-01.
his engine began in October of 1968 as the SLSF No. 323. After the Burlington Northern absorbed the Frisco in 1980, it eventually became the BN No. 28 and wore Cascade Green, later being dressed in Heritage I paint when it became the BNSF No. 3408 after the merger with the Santa Fe. After BNSF retired it off the roster, ITS picked it up and painted it in the red paint scheme it wears today. For a time during its career on the ITS, it worked at IFG at Grandview, MO along the KCS main. 2/2/25.
The run that counts! The final Morristown & Erie Polar Express trip before Christmas, on Christmas Eve is seen heading west towards Morristown with the #22 bringing up the markers as they cross the Whippany River heading toward the North Pole for the kids to get the first gift of Christmas.
ME Polar Express
ME SW1500 #20
ME GP7u #22
As dusk falls on the quiet town of North Lima, Ohio, a Pittsburgh & Lake Erie SW1500 is shut down for the night. The unit is off line on the Youngstown & Southern, accompanied by a Y&S caboose.
For a while these CSL trains were seen with NS power, now it seems like they've gone back to using their own power which is a very good thing. A SW1001 and SW1500 lead a train east on the CSX Lake Subdivision in Whiting Indiana
The 1:30pm Christmas Eve Polar Express on the Morristown & Erie is seen crossing Hog Pen Bridge..
ME Polar Express
ME GP7u #23
ME SW1500 #20
CP 9781 leads the way of CP 240 as it meets BRC SW1500 151 on the Nabisco local and CN 2713 on the point of CN U767 at Hayford Junction within the South Side of Chicago, IL.
Akron Barberton Cluster Railway's 1967 SW1500 1502 makes way thru downtown Barberton in route to interchange with the CSX at Akron. From there the job will work various industry in and around Akron.
NSHR-2 backs down Fifth Street in the once-prosperous mining town of Shamokin, Pennsylvania with one car for Shamokin Carbons.