L&N power ready to tie onto its train in East St.Louis,IL..

Corbin (KY) to Norton (VA) through freight 65 picks up an extra RS-3 at Loyall to handle some additional southbound tonnage. The extra Alco will lug 1325 additional tons on the run to the N&W inte... (more)

The passing siding at Kennesaw had recently been extended when this meet took place in 1953. At the time, this line belonged to the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, and L&N had trackage rights ... (more)

Three B&O Alco FA-2 units (No. 4030 on the point) have eastbound tonnage rolling on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR by trackage rights, passing Mesta Machine Works.

With 9625 on the point, three PRR Alco FA-2 units drag a freight eastward along the Ohio River by the old commuter stop of Avalon, just on the west side of Pittsburgh, Pa. (Patrons would exit on... (more)

Barton, MD 10/12/2012 - The Western Maryland Railway had four Alco FA-2s, one of which survives on the Georges Creek Railway along with sister WM GP-9 25. Sold by the WM in 1972, the FA-2 was stri... (more)

A pair of Alco FA-2's is laying over between runs. And yes, that is snow on the ground, even though it is late May!

This derailment occurred during the infamous 1955 strike on the L&N Railroad. On Saturday, April 23, 1955, engines 306, 238, 117 and 301 (two FA2 Alco cab units spliced by two RS3 road switchers) ... (more)

Erie Lackawanna Alco FA-2 7381 in the short-lived Erie inspired black paint scheme.

A five-unit consist of Alcos--FA2/RS3/FB2/RS3/FA2--coils through a reverse curve near Emerson, Georgia, on the Georgia-owned Western & Atlantic. This train is probably fast freight number 42, boun... (more)

Star of the show! All of this day's pushers on Williamsport Hill are different: "hammerhead" RS-3. RS-3, F7(A), FA-2, GP7. But operating Alco FA units are especially scarce by 1972, and Williamspo... (more)

303 sleeps the night away in Barton, across the street from the town post office.

The head brakeman of L&N through freight 65 rides the side ladder of FA-2 355 (recently repainted in the "new" gray and yellow scheme of that era) back to a coupling after a set-off of interchange... (more)

A southbound Lynch Turn rumbles into Loyall, where the horizontal train order board at the yard office (just ahead and out of the scene to the right) tells the engineer to stop and sign for Form 3... (more)