Whoever saw an RS-3 so clean?

A pair of Rock Island RS3s thunk across the diamond at Pullman Junction on the South Side of Chicago with a transfer run back in 1969. This was a great place for train-watching for this East Coast... (more)

Wearing the blue dip paint job that replaced its original maroon and yellow, Boston & Maine RS3 1511 heads up a short local freight westbound on the mainline at Ayer, MA, on a fall afternoon.

In the predawn darkness, Boston & Maine Alco and EMD power awaits the morning's assignments at the Westboro (West Lebanon, NH) engine terminal located across the Connecticut River from White River... (more)

LS&I 1604 tends to a derailment of ore cars in October of 1964. I love the small crane being used to transfer ore from the derailed cars. The exact location is not labeled but it appears to be on ... (more)

Old ALCO acting with MOW train at Line 7, CPTM Co.

Though the skies have begun to clear, the temperature has begun to drop rapidly as both of the Batten Kill's Alco RS-3s arrive with their train at Cargill in the Town of Salem, New York. The cond... (more)

On a late winter afternoon, a pair of Delaware & Hudson Alco RS3s take a spin on the turntable at Rouses Point, NY, before leaving town on a southbound freight.

2003 Railfan Day at the Naugatuck Railroad. Photo freight with former NH RS3 529 in the lead.

RARE DOUBLEHEADER: In a rare doubleheader, Batten Kill Alco RS-3s #s 4116 and 605 lead their train of 12 loads across the Hoosic River as they depart the Pan Am Southern interchange at Eagl... (more)

RARE DOUBLEHEADER: In a rare doubleheader, Batten Kill Alco RS-3s #s 4116 and 605 lead a train of 12 loads north through White Creek, NY, shortly after making the pick up at the Pan Am Sout... (more)

The day after Christmas 2017 finds Batten Kill Alco RS-3 #605 resting outside Cargill in the Town of Salem, New York with a fresh snowfall coating the engine.

Daily the line is used for metropolitan trains, but on Sundays it is possible to see the tourist train running to its destination in the railway village of Paranapiacaba.