The conductor of a local on the West Side Canal Bank Track is calling the dispatcher to get permission to cross the busy, double track Montreal Subdivision mainline.

Nickel Plate Road Alco S4 79 idles alongside RG&E GE 45 Tonner on a cool September night.

Taken at the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum as part of a night photo session, with lig... (more)

Railfan weekend.

Former C&O S4.

MILW 816 works the KCS-MILW Joint Agency at Kansas City.

As an autorack train shoved into IHB's Blue Island Yard, it didn't take long for me to notice it was no ordinary autorack. Included in the train consist was CRGX 1528, a former ATSF Alco S4. Built... (more)

Some of the original Union Pacific yellow paint still shows on Scoular 1166 as it loads cars in Silver Bow in 1993. The Alco S-4 was built for UP in 1955 and retire/sold by UP in 1972.

CCV 3051 pauses after a Jordan Spreader demonstration. That is a well worn Delaware & Hudson spreader

Bay Colony S4 1058 was the only one of the railroad's five Alco switchers to receive a dark red "cranberry" paint scheme. Working here for the Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad, it leads a Hya... (more)

Late on a summer afternoon, Bay Colony S4 1061 eases a Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad excursion train off the Cape Cod Canal lift bridge at Canal Junction in Bourne, MA,, where the former New Haven l... (more)

The 10:30 a.m. excursion departs Ellsworth for Ellsworth Falls. Power for the train is a real gem, former Portland Terminal S4 1055 in a Maine Central livery.

Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley S4 crosses one of the few road crossings between Cooperstown, NY and Milford, NY with the once a week daytime excursion.

The former Concord and Claremont RR Alco S4 is running a special train on it's first day of service on the Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley Railroad. This locomotive was originally Delaware & Hud... (more)

The Pinsly organization, like many shortline holding companies, frequently swapped locomotives between its railroads. That's how Frankfort & Cincinnati S4 106 moved from its home in Kentucky to Ma... (more)

A worn out, old Alco sits just outside the old car shops at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, lashed up with a BL2 and some sort of slug. I am unsure of the origins or plans for this... (more)