The Octoraro Railway's Alco S2 poses alongside the Lancaster Chapter NRHS's doodlebug charter. No. 3 was built as the B&O No. 519 in October, 1948; it's now in the collection of the B&O Museum in... (more)

A group of MLW/Alco switchers including S2 7094 rest between assignments in downtown Vancouver, BC in August 1978. The foreground track was used to turn the Canadian passenger train consist after ... (more)

Two of San Francisco Bay Railroad's Bio Diesel Alco S2s sit idle.

“Hey, when you go over to the east plant, can you take a couple of sheets of plywood along?” The New Jersey Zinc Company rostered a small fleet of Alco switchers to work within and between its... (more)

Shooting around the engine terminal at Clearing with some flurries.

Bringing the 1st cut of loads from the mine down the valley, The Beech Mountain Railroad's Alco S-2 "Old 113" eases across one of the Beech Mountain's infamous "Submarine" Brid... (more)

Running light up the valley to retrieve the last cut of loads for the day, The Beech Mountain Railroad's Alco S-2 "Old 113" charges through the sleepy little community known as Palace Va... (more)

The bulk of the San Francisco Bay Railroad's business is the handling of construction debris, a.k.a. "Dirty Dirt." Here the transloading process between truck and rail is seen taking pl... (more)

Nearing the end of another switching day, SFBR 23 pauses next to one of its road-running Kenworth counterparts.

SFBR 23 and its three-man-crew head out to Pier 94 to retrieve a string of gondolas. This crew consists of the conductor, the engineer, and the railroad's logistics manager.

Beech Mountains Alco S2 #113 built as Michigan Limestone & Chemical in 1946 crosses Palace Valley Road, through the back yards of a few residents and into the woods with 25 empty coal cars in tow.... (more)

This ancient sand tower appears to be much older than the Alco S2 that it is feeding when I stopped in here some 38 years ago.

A Roger Puta photograph