Alligator No. 5162 works the Eugene hump.

A re-engined Alligator and a rebuilt GP35 sit outside the classic shop building.

Two Alligators await repairs.

Still looking good after many years, this ex-ATSF gator is loafing along on trackage operated by Squaw Creek, Yankeetown Dock and Norfolk Southern. It's a pie job.

One of the few (maybe the only) times a former LS&I Alco RSD-15 “Alligator” led a Fox River Valley train. The freight is approaching Butler Yard on the C&NW and is about to pass under Lovers Lane ... (more)

Three Lake Superior and Ishpeming RSD-15's (ex Santa Fe) wait quietly for a crew to come on duty and fire them up for the next ore train. Ektachrome 64.

It often seemed if you took a girlfriend along with you on trips to the LS&I you could get some terrific smoke shows...maybe those guys had been riding around in the woods a little to long with no... (more)

The LS&I 3PM yard job works its way into the joint LS&I/CNW/Soo Line yard at Ishpeming with 15 cars of general freight/mine supplies. Gators 2400,2405, and 2401 darken the sky in fine Alco traditi... (more)

On Sept. 10, 1986, the weather just would not improve. When we got up that morning we were greeted with fog and light drizzle. Faced with a day of shooting in the funk, we asked and received per... (more)

A westbound "Hill Job" has just weighed its train of empty ore jennies and is accelerating away from the scales as it crosses Morgan Creek Trestle, just east of Eagle Mills, MI, on Sept. 8, 1986.

An eastbound LS&I "Hill Job" is undergoing its brake test at Eagle Mills, MI on Sept. 8, 1986 and will soon be headed downgrade to the ore dock with another train of taconite pellets.

In the mid-1970s, Santa Fe rebuilt three Alco RSD15s with EMD components and dubbed them CRSD20 diesels. These were used on the hump at the railroad's massive new yard in Barstow, California, whi... (more)

Indiana Hi-Rail Alco RSD15 Alligators Nos. 442 and 443 sit at Harwood Yard in Evansville, Indiana, on April 25, 1993. They were not to move this day, but we did later chase a different IHRC train ... (more)

Stand back a ways if you don't want to get sprayed with 97 dripping refrigerator cars on Cotton Belt's hotshot perishable "Winter Garden" as it blasts through Marmaduke, Arkansas hell bent for St.... (more)

An Austin Steam Train Association brakeman examines the view forward as the train returns to its Cedar Park, TX depot on a 20th anniversary passenger excursion.