318 smokes it up like a good Alco should while switching the industries between Como and Hennepin Avenue.

It still amazes me that in 2010 you can find Alcos hard at work, especially a model as rare as the RS-27. This is former C&NW 901, built in 1962, working the yard at Midway on the Minnesota Comme... (more)

Westbound GBW at Oneida, WI in the summer of '75.

On occasion in the 70's and 80's GB&W would operate an Extra if freight became to heavy for either/or trains 1 and 2 to handle. This is a extra west out of Green Bay with 65 cars on a very humid M... (more)

GB&W 317 is getting ready to depart Wisconsin Rapids with the Plover job at 11AM on a bright late August morning. The caboose is parked near the yard office and in the distance you can see the Wis... (more)

GB&W 318,311,312 round the curve in Blair with 117 cars on train 2.

GB&W 316,310 have a hefty train 2 in tow at the crew change point of Merrillan. With 115 cars this train will not get far unless the crew member in sight on the walkway of 310 can get it to start ... (more)

GB&W 316,310 struggle east on a heavy #2 of 115 cars. The pair of RS-27's really had to work to get this train over the road.

The Belt Job with MNNR 48 briefly stops so a switch can be lined, giving me an opportunity to grab a shot of the Hennepin Job on an adjacent track. Luckily the RS-27s have not yet been stored for... (more)

One of two RS-27's left in the whole country, MNNR 316 throttles up past the skyline of Minneapolis. Overlooking the subject matter is the new Minnesota Gophers football stadium, visible just belo... (more)

318 smokes it up as it accelerates from a standstill. Alco built 27 RS-27s, and only two are left - both on the Minnesota Commercial.

Alco only built 27 RS-27s, and only two still operate, including this one: ex-GB&W No. 318, now in service on the Minnesota Commercial. Here it is on a warm spring morning in May 2009, switching ... (more)

Unit 318 was built by Alco in 1962 as the demonstrator model for the RS-27. After stints on the C&NW, CP, and GB&W, it's now in Minnesota working for the Minnesota Commercial.

You can almost hear the chugging in this picture. Ex. GBW 318, one of two RS-27's Minnesota Commercial owns, shuffles cars in the small yard just south of Highway 35W.

A pair of RS-27s are smoking it up for a handful of railfans in this rare lash-up.