As viewed from above the old Boston & Maine station at Eagle Bridge, SC&H Alco RS1 3501 is about to be moved north to Shushan by RS36 SNEX 5012 after arriving at her new home on the Battenkill Rai... (more)

Still wearing her Saltair colors and even her Saltair number DS-4, Shortline Enterprises S6 #1040 awaits her undetermined fate in Fillmore.

In August 2007, I found Vintage Locomotives, Inc. (VILX) Alco RS3 512 sitting at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She was built as Reading Railroad (RDG) 495 in 1952... (more)

In August 2007, I found Vintage Locomotives, Inc. (VILX). According to RRPA, she was built in 1964 by American Locomotive Company as Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (NDEM) 8105.

ALCO in Schenectady. Great Northern (GN) RS3 no. 229 (ALCO, 1953) is seen on display at the Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci) in Schenectady, NY; the city where the locomotive wa... (more)

A&M ALCO's in 2022: After a derailment on the Fort Smith bridge in early May stranded 3 for A&M's SD70's, the ALCO C420's were pressed back into road service. Showing they're worth keeping ... (more)

A&M ALCO's in 2022: After a derailment on the Fort Smith bridge in early May stranded 3 for A&M's SD70's, the ALCO C420's were pressed back into road service. Nothing says America like Ame... (more)

Former D&H unit named "Morrisville" sadly could not keep this bucolic operation going. RIP

Former Magma Arizona RS3 3 sits at the Grand Canyon Railway yard in Williams.

Good view of the crew accommodation in the short hood. Tex-Mex did this on some units. Photo by unknown. From my collection.

ST&E Alco S1 507 rests outside the roads engine house on a fine spring day in 1979 This unit was built in May 1942

Fire Up 19! On Friday, November 19, 2021, Delaware Coastline Railroad 19 (ex-MDDE 19, exx-CR 9846, exxx-PC 9846, exxxx-PRR 9846, née-PRR 8426, Alco T6, 3/1958) was brought out of its indoo... (more)

An eastbound Norfolk & Western train, with in the lead NKP Alco RS36 872, Wabash F7 680, NKP GP9 812 and NKP RS11 563 at State Line Tower crossing the EJ&E, N&W (ex-Wabash), and the IHB on Jul... (more)

Apache railway ALCO RS36 900 is part of a five-unit set being prepared for the next train north. All three of the roads RS36 inits are part of this consist as well as two of the former SP RS11s

With quite the eclectic, all-Alco lashup, the Batten Kill makes a rare Sunday run with interchange traffic from the Pan Am Southern connection at Eagle Bridge. Leading the way is Raven Rail's D&H... (more)