SP Alco RS32 No. 4008 switches Sharpe Army Depot in Lathrop, CA. The sun's about to go down, and 4008 keeps working so as to clear the main for an approaching eastbound.

With her 251's main bearings blown, Delaware Lackawanna RS32 #211 awaits a crane to remove her prime mover while her older sister, RS3 #4068 awaits her next call to duty. From what I understood th... (more)

A southbound Arkansas & Missouri passenger train exits Winslow Tunnel and Winslow, Arkansas, on October 22, 1995. The train is powered by A&M’s lone Alco RS-32 No. 42, which can trace its ancestry... (more)

CNW 4246 was built in July 1961 as New York Central 8034, and became Conrail 2034 in 1976. By 1980 CNW had acquired 10 former Conrail RS-32s. This photo was taken at Huron, SD, but by the mid-1980... (more)

Portland Turn makes a return from the namesake interchange with NS. Thankfully, in 2016, this tradition is alive and kicking.

Fresh from the paint shop, CNW 4248 leads a short freight out of the yard in Appleton, WI in August of 1984.

East Tennessee &Western North Carolina’s local crew works the industries in Elizabethton, Tennessee with their ex-SP RS32, which survives today on the Delaware-Lackawanna.

Chicago and North Western Alco RS-32 No. 4242 switches cars in front of the yard office at Green Bay, Wisconsin, on April 27, 1985.

Sitting in Chrome Crankshaft's facility in Alhambra, California, on May 12th, 1982, is RS-32 4005. (These are also known as DL-721s by builder Alco.) Placed in service by SP in April 1962 as Sou... (more)

The 66-mile East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad was a noted three-foot-gauge empire that at its peak reached from Johnson City, Tennessee through the mountains to Boone, North Carolin... (more)

ex SP 4001. Chrome Crankshaft lease unit. From my collection, photographer unknown.

Southern Pacific's Sunnyvale Local with RS-32 4004 and C-50-4 caboose 1899 switching the Libby's cannery in Sunnyvale on August 3, 1973. The cannery closed in 1985 and the siding and yard tracks a... (more)

CNW 4242 and 4255 lead a few cars of general freight west to Empire Mine and Eagle Mills on a late March afternoon.