After intense thunderstorms in the area, the weather quietened down for a pleasant sunset as WNYP's Farmer's Valley job heads north on the Farmers Valley branch and crosses the Allegheny River.

CNW Alco Rs11 4251 and C425 402 wait for there next job on a sunny morning in the summer of 1981. This was Alco country on the North Western. the 4251 was CNWs only High nose RS11

Originally built for the Monon, then later painted in L&N colors, #1330 awaits its next assignment.

Brandon Rail was created in 1981 to serve industries on the former Rock Island line between Manhattan, KS and Clifton, KS. The operation lasted less than a year and the line was later abandoned.

Utah Railway Alco RSD15 403 at Martin Yard with a Coal Empty. As the unit notches up it lets out a cloud of black smoke. typical Alco turbo lag. photo taken in the late afternoon on a nice fall ... (more)

Green Bay & Western train 2 crosses a bridge parallel to a dam on the Black River that forms Lake Arbutus at Hatfield, Wisconsin, on December 5, 1992. The train is pulled by a quartet of GB&W Alco... (more)

Delaware Lackawanna 3642 briefly darkens the sky while passing the switch to the Tobyhanna Army Depot.

GBW 315 leads train #1 out of Green Bay, WI in September of 1977. Fran Wiener Kodachrome from my collection.

A pair of WNYP C430s that still wear a decent coat of Morristown & Erie red paint head for the International Waxes plant in Smethport, PA on the Farmers Valey Branch. The train is breaking throug... (more)

Got Alcos? The Nevada Northern Railway certainly does. You are looking at NN Locomotives #109 (closest), a 1950 Alco RS-3, and #201, a recently-repatriated 1951 Alco RSD-4. In addition ... (more)

Not long after departing East Winona, Green Bay & Western train 2 rambles through Wisconsin farm country at Marshland on the morning of December 5, 1992. The eastbound train is powered by a quarte... (more)

The crew has a last minute discussion before heading home for the day, as Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern Alco locomotives, RS11 No. 321 and C420 No. 315 sit in front of the railroad’s shop at ... (more)

Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard opened in 1972, and for use on the hump the railroad purchased six SD38-2s to be mated with slugs built from retired Alco C-628s and C-630s. But the SP kept ex... (more)

Occupying the track space usually reserved for the RS-3s, former Delaware Lackawanna & Western HH660 and former NYSW etc. six axle now sit. A return to home rails for the HH660, with plans for ... (more)