As the morning clouds break and sunlight starts to appear, GVT Alcos numbered 1044 (Alco S6) and 1801 (MLW RS18) wait to be started and pulled out of their bays for the days switching.
The Ohio River Company operated a large fleet of coal barges on the Ohio River. At their Ashland, Kentucky facility, Alco S6 56 was used to move hoppers around to the loading docks.
Genesee Valley Transportation crews shuffle around the S6 locomotive on to the pit track in the roundhouse as they get ready to start the days work in Batavia, New York.
An Alco S6 idles outside the engine house at the GVT's Batavia Division. A pile of treated wood poles, one of the commodities transloaded at the yard here, frames the locomotive before the day's w... (more)