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.

"Corporates in Portland"

It's nice when railroad employees, though not railfans, appreciate that their equipment is rare and of interest. This was the case in this little yard, soon to be abandoned for the old DL&W facil... (more)

It was nice to know and appreciate that this would probably be the last I saw of a large number of Alcos. I had several days in town, working nights and plenty of time to prowl around. The yard ... (more)

Starting up at Steamtown.

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.

One year after the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad began operations, two friends and I made the pilgrimage to see the new Alco center of the universe. Arriving at the Fayetteville airport by early af... (more)

VLIX C420 2064 slumbers away in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

When the Lehigh Valley was dissolved in 1976, its fleet of Alco C420’s was conveyed to the Delaware & Hudson, where it remained intact for over a decade. On the D&H, the fleet’s paint remained... (more)

Occupying adjacent turntable leads at Bethlehem are locomotives of two Conrail predecessor railroads that have found their way to two different successors. Lehigh and Hudson River railway C420 24 ... (more)

GBW 323 leads a short Boat Train into Kewaunee, WI on a nice Fall day in 1986. Hardly a trace of this line remains today.

PT98 pulls into Slateford Jct to interchange with the NS with the DL's Lehigh Valley "heritage unit" leading the way.

On a dreary autumn day, an Oak Island-bound Conrail freight with a pair of Lehigh and Hudson River C420’s bracketing two Lehigh Valley RS11’s rolls through Bethlehem Union Station. The lead Al... (more)