Tioga Central (Wellsboro & Corning) RS3U #506 passes the old NYC station at Wellsboro, PA on August 17, 2009.

Snow continues to fall on this mid-February afternoon, as Alco RS-3 #109 heads up Robinson Canyon with a load of empty ore cars for the mine. Above the train is Hwy 50, AKA "The Loneliest Ro... (more)

Delaware & Hudson RS3 4023 rests inside the roundhouse at Rouses Point, NY, on a Saturday night.

Last minute instructions prior the start of the day.

Visions of D&H Past In a timeless scene on the Batten Kill two classic Alcos head north from Eagle Bridge with 20 heavy loads. The BK's veteran ex D&H RS-3 4116 leads the newly refurbished... (more)

In the winter of 1978 the MBTA was perennially short of power for its commuter trains and sometimes borrowed Amtrak RS3s to help out. Amtrak 100 teamed up with an MBTA GP9 on this Needham Branch t... (more)

Alco RS-3 #109 and the trailing caboose provide the only color on this snowy February afternoon, as it pulls a short string of empty ore cars out of town headed for the mine at Ruth. From the 200... (more)

This unusual RS3/GP9B pairing was assigned as a hump switcher at Penn Central's ex-New Haven Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, where they rested among assorted other power. Not long after this pho... (more)

Under ominous November skies, an Anthracite Railways excursion passes through County Line, Pennsylvania.

As the sun sets, Nevada Northern Alco RS-3 #109 and Alco RS-2 #105 lead a string of empty ore cars out of the East Ely yard headed for the mine at Ruth. 2020 Nevada Northern winter photo spectacu... (more)

With light snow falling, Penn Central train PL-1 (Providence-Lowell) pauses in the yard at Framingham, MA, behind a pair of RS-3s. If you look closely you'll note that the ex-New Haven lead unit w... (more)

On a frigid Sunday afternoon, an ex-New York Central RS-3 steams up the yard at Chatham, NY, with a Penn Central upper Harlem Line commuter train on weekend layover. Come Monday morning the train ... (more)

Batten Killed It!

After making the 7 hr round trip drive the prior Friday to see nothing I wasn't sure making the trek again in rainy miserable weather was worth it.

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One of 14 Alco RS-3's (185-198) owned by WM.

Nevada Northern RS-3 prepares for the days photo related activities within the yard at the railway museum.