One hell of a consist sits outside of the Salford Shops: OSRX 500, the only Alco S6 on the OSR roster, coupled to 644 and 175. OSRX 175 is an Ex-C&O 6193 GP9 and OSRX 644 is an ex-BCOL 644 M420.

It seemed that owing to the GB&W's loyalty to Alco's that a number of the paper mills served by or in close proximity to the GB&W employed Alco units. It had been been a chilly morning in central ... (more)

Ventura County number 7 is seen at their yard in Oxnard, with the SP lights still intact. Photo is from 86 or 87

An early morning visit to the M&H yard finds the Western Maryland painted S6 parked at the end of street running next to the days excursion train with 65-tonner #2 leading.

WM 151 along with the Conrail Historical Society had caboose rides to raise money for Breast Cancer during the Middletown PA Craft Faire

Strangely, this appears to be the first shot of W&W #78 on RP. Sister S6 #80 seemed to have more photo ops, appearing in four shots on this site.

Ohio River Company Alco #56 working one of the three ORCO coal transloaders in this area. This loader is currently out of service.

DL&W master mechanic Roger is carefully lifting off the front vents on DL&W 1044 so they can be lubed.

After having shoved eight loaded covered hoppers into a yard track to the right, AEX S6 #41, doubles up two cuts of four cars, to take eight more back to the elevator to load, as the old Alco smok... (more)

AEX 41, a former South Bufflao S6, is seen shoving eight loaded NS covered hoppers out of the Port of Toledo elevator and under I-75, as it heads into NS's Sumner St. yard to pick up eight more co... (more)

I liked photographing in places where I didn't belong! Evidence of that fact is illustrated here. I was hiking along the eastern plant gate at Republic Steel Corporation's Chicago Works, when I sp... (more)

Salt City Energy Ventures rebuilt the old Allied Chemical power plant in Solvay, NY creating a coal fired cogen plant. They utilized two Alco S6 units number SCEV 1 and SCEV 2 to switch coal cars ... (more)

Caboose is #1005.

The first ever photo charter featuring the Western Maryland S6, reciently repainted into proper speed-lettering livery, is seen here posing on the bridge crossing Swatara Creek.