Your commonplace will become precious.

The DFT Job is seen charging past the old signals with a short train of nine cars for South Driftwood on a gorgeous spring Saturday on the old Pennsy playground. That wonderful 251 chuff! chuf... (more)

SCL Alco C630 #2213 in Rocky Mount, NC, April 1970.

This is the view on August 6, 1978 from the extremely rickety and ancient steel footbridge over the Southern Pacific's small Bull Ring Yard in downtown Los Angeles, a second-generation diesel love... (more)

NW C630 and its slug in Roanoke, July 1973.

L&N C628 #1425 in Corbin, August '73.

Before the big Alco's were scraped for good, they went to Mingo Junction to perform heavy duty mineral hauling on Conrail.

5300 was the flagship of the RDG Alco 630s.

Lehigh valley Freight running down the CNJ line.

Conrail big Alco Century C630 was involved in a pretty bad derailment and resided at the Collinwood shops like this until scrapped.

The days of the big Alco's on Conrail are over and the herd of junk Centuries is being thinned at Collinwood. With only a chalked on number on the frame to indicate it's a CR unit, CR 6760 will ca... (more)

Two C630's and five C424's - with an EMD pup on the end for good measure- make up a deadline of stored power at the Reading Lines backshop late in 1975. 5302 would become Conrail 6755 about a year... (more)

NB freight chugs out of the yard crossing over the lead to the CV main heading to the main line.

One of my personal favorites is leading this NB train as it eases out of the yard during one of my many visits.