A pair of Lehigh Valley Alco products led by C628 #640 lead an eastbound freight at Dupont, PA in July 1975. Photograph by more)

Quiet winter day
On a peaceful and snowy day in January 1984, two Alco C628s keep the usual gaggle of GP7s company in the Chicago and North Western engine facility at Butler Yard, Wisco... (more)

The dumper job heads back to the receiving yard at Escanaba to pick up another cut of loaded ore cars.

On Chicago and North Western’s ore line, the 4:00 a.m. extra ore load headed southbound meets the northbound 10:00 a.m. extra ore empty at Little Lake, Michigan, on October 25, 1986. Six big Alc... (more)

Twilight at Little Lake
As the crew eats at a local beanery at Little Lake, Michigan, the locomotives for the Chicago and North Western ore train bound for the dock at Escanaba, patient... (more)

A D&H/ Lehigh Valley run through train bound for Allentown, PA., gets under way after work at the yard and a meet with a passenger excursion. It was a consolation prize for photographers, unable t... (more)

Century sits with U30C and leased ex-LIRR C420

A look at the N&W yard in Roanoke in February 1972

This is an image I obtained from a retired L&N/CSX management friend of mine, David Orr (thanks, Dave!). The occasion is a special photo shoot for the L&N and U.S. Steel. The normally grubby Alcos... (more)

Late evening of August 24th, 1984 finds C628's 6728,6704 and 6710 getting underway at Partridge with a trainload of pellets heading for the dock at Escanaba. The 6728 was one of a very few C628's ... (more)

Long and lanky C628 6707 awaits servicing at Escanaba roundhouse not long before a heavy thundershower.

CNW 6722 sits out a sunny March day in Adams. The C628's ran around in varying stages of ex N&W black or blue for a few months after purchase as power short CNW put most of them to work with just ... (more)

The sun had nearly set both literally and figuratively on the CNW Alco fleet when I shot this photo of the 6725 and 6720 muscling a cut of loads up to the dumper shed in the last light of a May ev... (more)

The C628 fleet on CNW pulled its last ore train around Christmas 1986. The 25 surviving units were then stored in Escanaba until 1990 as the CNW tried to sell the lines north of Green Bay like the... (more)

A friendly engineer assigned to the Antoine Turn decided to unleash his set of C628's just as I was about to click the shutter on this beautiful November morning. The units had been idling for a f... (more)