Train Time at Perry

The Little Rock & Western’s entire roster is visible in this photo at the railroad’s home base in Perry, Arkansas. C420 101, which has recently arrived from... (more)

While this appears to be a westbound PT-97, this power is actually on the hind end of an eastbound PT-98. The as-delivered Lehigh Valley paint scheme on 414 compliments the bright fall foliage at... (more)

On the former Delaware & Hudson Penn Division, Delaware Lackawanna train SC-7(?) heads west through Olyphant with D-L C420 414, D-L RS3 4068, D-L C420 405, and CNJ RS3 1554, leading a cut of frack... (more)

Things are not as they seem. DL 2403 and DL 414 tag along on the hind end of PT-98 as the train rolls through the curve at Cresco. All three of DL's six-axle MLW/Alco units led the train on this... (more)

One half of LIRR's L2 class C420's (222-229) rest at Holban Yard awaiting their next freight train assignment. Bumped by GP38-2's from most passenger runs in 1976, 22 of the C420's were retired, a... (more)

In the waning days of the Delaware & Hudson Bevier Street yard in Binghamton, New York, a C420 rolls off of the turntable while a U33C idles on a house track. The acquisition of the former Lackaw... (more)

After the Delaware & Hudson’s expansion as a result of the Conrail merger, the D&H was short of power, and looked in all directions for additional locomotives. One solution came in the form of a... (more)

Arkansas & Missouri C420s 58 and 54 sit quietly in Fort Smith after another day of Alco business. Both 58 and 54 were built as Lehigh & Hudson River Railway 29 and 24 respectively.

Arkansas & Missouri C420s 54 and 58 sit quietly in Fort Smith after another day of Alco business. Both 54 and 58 were built as Lehigh & Hudson River Railway 24 and 29 respectively.

Arkansas & Missouri Alco C420s 57 and 52 compare features during their overnight slumber in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

An Arkansas & Missouri local crew switches grain cars just south of the shops in Springdale, Arkansas. The Monett turn arrived just a short time before, and its cars are already being parsed for d... (more)

Farewell, Old Friend

The Lehigh Valley Railroad was the local mainline road when I was learning photography in the mid-1970's. While the newer GP38-2’s and U23B’s drew the hot... (more)

An Apache Railway freight accelerates from the BNSF interchange in Holbrook on its way back to Snowflake, Ariz., behind a set of Alcos.

ON the way to Holbrook, AZ

Alcos dominate the shop tracks at the Delaware & Hudson's East Binghamton engine house on the day after Christmas, 1985.