ALCO Safari Day 8, Delaware Lackawanna: Also sitting to the side of the Von Storch shops is DL 405 along with several other DL ALCO's in their storage track. No word if there is a problem w... (more)

A C420 switches the Delaware & Hudson yard in Hudson, Pennsylvania. The tracks to the left of the station are the D&H main line to Wilkes-Barre. At the other end of the yard to the right was the b... (more)

Dakota Southern No. 213 is a long, long way from New York, where it used to run in commuter service as Long Island Railroad 213. The track that Dakota Southern operated in South Dakota are now bei... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 3, CVSR: A quick stop in Akron on my way East allowed me to catch the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic coming into the Akron station stop. This C420 was recently repowered with a MTU ... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 3, CVSR: A quick stop in Akron on my way East allowed me to catch the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic coming into the Akron station stop. The rear of this C420 is unmistakable as any... (more)

A former Ohio Central Alco C420 works Springdale Yard as another day on the A&M winds down.

With Lehigh Valley Painted C420 414 in the lead, the Delaware Lackawanna's SC-7 makes it way south into Scranton, Pennsylvania. The train rounds the bend past the railroad's newly opened Von Storc... (more)

Still wearing the colors of former owner Long Island, Virginia & Maryland C420 213 idles at Cape Charles, Virginia.

As-built and de-powered Alcos team up to work the L&N yard in Corbin.

L&N eventually acquired a pretty big group of C420s, but not in the usual way. First, L&N purchased 16 new C420s from Alco, then two more were acquired with the takeover of the Tennessee Central,... (more)

Our last shot of the day on March 6, 1976 was at Walnutport, PA. LV C420 407 - RS11 400 - C420 414 - RS11 401 roll AM-1 through the Main Street crossing in fading light. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo... (more)

Right behind NE-1 came AM-1, led by C420 407 - RS11 400 - C420 414 - RS11 401, passing under the Route 145 bridge in Treichlers, PA on March 6, 1976. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo. Railpictures.net... (more)

Forty-Five Years Ago On this day in 1976, the Erie-Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central, Lehigh & Hudson River, Reading, Penn-Reading Seashore Lines, Buffalo Creek, Niagara Junction, ... (more)

Little Rock & Western C420 102 stands on the engine house lead at the road’s headquarters location in Perry, Arkansas.

Alco in the House

Arkansas short line Little Rock & Western’s engine shed in Perry is located immediately behind the former Rock Island station, which is still identified by its ... (more)