ALCO Safari Day 8, Delaware Lackawanna: Now that the big power is tied down for the day at Steamtown, the crew of DL3 jumps on the local power, and heads across Lackawanna Ave, towards the ... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 7, Delaware Lackawanna: Having lifted the outbound mill empties, PO75 starts ahead. The plan is to pull up to clear the mill lead, re line the switch, then pull up to clear ... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 7, Delaware Lackawanna: Back to the Pocono summit now at Mt. Pocono, PO75 comes underneath the Fairview bridge with a their empty center beams from Cresco. Although not very... (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)

L&N Alco C630 # 1427 rests at a small yard in Chicago in the summer of 1979 i those days a lot of Alcos could still be found in the Chicago area and this yard seemed to always have a Big century a... (more)

ALCO RS-3 waiting for a time to move locomotives that went to the railway preservation by the ABPF in 2020

ALCO Safari Day 2: Elusive Creatures Second stop on my ALCO Safari trip was the Mosaic potash terminal in Rosemount, they roster an ALCO S-2 and lease a rebuilt RS-3. On a whim I made a sto... (more)

The fresh paint of one of D&S' ex-White Pass Alcos contrasts with the stormy skies as train 462 crosses the Animas River just above Cascade Canyon, headed south for Durango.

CACX 102 leads a Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley private charter past a crossing in Index, NY. The entire consist was just the engine and caboose, but it was well worth the "chase", despite the tor... (more)

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

A Reading C424 hovers in the greasy, oily gunk that was the foundation of the Lehigh Valley’s Bethlehem Terminal. The Reading C424’s were among the early-production versions that had the radia... (more)

The only operating Alco in the state of Virginia begins its day hauling the northbound local through Verona.

Vermont Railway's Rutland to North Bennington local cruises along just south of Wallingford, Vermont. September 23, 1983