A 1981 trip to the Midwest included a few absolutely miserable weather days in the Ohio River Valley. One of the biggest prizes on those days was a chance to photograph one of seven Alco S5’s ev... (more)

Fresh from the paint shop, CNW 4248 leads a short freight out of the yard in Appleton, WI in August of 1984.

A Gettysburg Railroad RS-36 and a chop-nose Geep sit out the weekend near the college grounds. No. 70 was built as the NKP 870 in 1962, and was later renumbered to 2870 by the NW. Alco built onl... (more)

Alligator No. 9841 is in the midst of getting some major work done at the shops.

A Lot of Horsepower for a Transfer Run

A quartet of six-axle Alco diesels (C628s and C630s) heads east out of the Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, on a... (more)

Rarely seen outside the CMC Steel facility gates, the old Alco is in charge of switching the facility on this day. Here they are bringing a cut of cars into CSXT's Cayce Yard.

A Sled Where It Never Snows

Among the engine sets handling switching duties at the Southern Pacific's large West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, on March 2, 1975, are SP C-63... (more)

An Alco C425 leads an empty train away from the power plant on the Navajo Mine Railroad. Power for the train is coming from an E60 on the rear, while the C425 is used as a cab car. The Alco retain... (more)

Kennecott Copper 201, a rare RSD-4 sits at the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie.

Piedmont & Northern C420s 2000 and 2001 working at Spartanburg, SC with a set of Clinchfield EMDs waiting in the distance in this June 1969 scene.

LNAC's seldom used RS36 sits outside of the engine shed in the early morning sun as thunderstorms approach the area, creating a rainbow in the sky.

Delaware-Lackawanna's recently repainted C425s are nearly done with their day after returning from NS Taylor Yard.

In July 2000, the Western New York Railway Historical Society entered into an agreement with RELCO LOCOMOTIVES, INC. to purchase this rare ALCO Model HH660 high hood switching locomotive that was ... (more)

An obvious refugee from the Southern Pacific, James River Corporation S6 1201 switches the paper mill in Green Bay. Although it was owned and operated by the Green Bay & Western for a brief period... (more)

VLIX C420 2064 slumbers away in Oak Ridge, Tennessee