A Very Old and Rare Alco HH600 # 2302 owned by American Grains sits a Plainview Tx in May 1977. This was the former Santa Fe 2302 built in August 1937. it was one of the first Diesel Switchers d... (more)

SP seemed to to have at least one of everything. One of the rarities got a few more years of life doing light duty on this little shoreline. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.

Latest acquisition. Efforting the history of this ALCO. International Intermodal Center on the long hood leads to Huntsville, Alabama. IIC-107. Ex Dupont 107; ex DOE 39-5309. Serial #. 79052.

A very Rare Bird/ This Is a API620 rebuilt out of a Alco RSD5 at the roads Empalme shops. This I believe was the first unit done. It leads train number 2 into the yard at Nogales on a early morn... (more)

National Locomotive was a start up locomotive rebuilder on the propery of the Morristown & Erie Railroad in Morristown NJ. They had a bunch of retired Norfolk & Western RS36s and RS11s that they w... (more)

As viewed from above the old Boston & Maine station at Eagle Bridge, SC&H Alco RS1 3501 is about to be moved north to Shushan by RS36 SNEX 5012 after arriving at her new home on the Battenkill Rai... (more)

Still wearing her Saltair colors and even her Saltair number DS-4, Shortline Enterprises S6 #1040 awaits her undetermined fate in Fillmore.

In August 2007, I found Vintage Locomotives, Inc. (VILX) Alco RS3 512 sitting at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She was built as Reading Railroad (RDG) 495 in 1952... (more)

In August 2007, I found Vintage Locomotives, Inc. (VILX). According to RRPA, she was built in 1964 by American Locomotive Company as Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (NDEM) 8105.

ALCO in Schenectady. Great Northern (GN) RS3 no. 229 (ALCO, 1953) is seen on display at the Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci) in Schenectady, NY; the city where the locomotive wa... (more)

A&M ALCO's in 2022: After a derailment on the Fort Smith bridge in early May stranded 3 for A&M's SD70's, the ALCO C420's were pressed back into road service. Showing they're worth keeping ... (more)

A&M ALCO's in 2022: After a derailment on the Fort Smith bridge in early May stranded 3 for A&M's SD70's, the ALCO C420's were pressed back into road service. Nothing says America like Ame... (more)

Former D&H unit named "Morrisville" sadly could not keep this bucolic operation going. RIP

Former Magma Arizona RS3 3 sits at the Grand Canyon Railway yard in Williams.

Good view of the crew accommodation in the short hood. Tex-Mex did this on some units. Photo by unknown. From my collection.