Practice photo for upcoming night photo shoot on August 12, 2017 as part of the museums 50th Anniversary of Bee Line Service on the Reading Railroad.

Immediately after its formation, Conrail transferred all six-axle Alco Centuries to Ohio for use in iron ore drag freight service. Of course a lot of that ore was destined for the steel mills in t... (more)

End of the line for former N&W Alco C630 131. She and an unidentified sister are being cut up at Cycle Systems in Roanoke. The 3000 HP unit, built in 1966 and originally numbered 1131, spent her l... (more)

The star of the 1988 Blue Mountain & Reading’s 1988 Railfan Weekend was Reading Company Technical & Historical Society’s newly-restored Reading C630. Here the big Alco poses for photographers ... (more)

Penn Central's black dip paint scheme is generally not remembered with fondness, but lots of classic locomotives wore it. Minimally decorated Century 630 6328, an ex-PRR unit, visited Boston in Ap... (more)

One of the Reading's twelve burly Century 630s awaits its next assignment at the Bethlehem, PA, engine terminal that the railroad shared with the CNJ.

NW hump set working Bellevue hump

CR 6764 is former Reading Lines no. 5311, an Alco C630 locomotive in the deadline at Collinwood Yard, Cleveland, Ohio, in January 1981. Former Southern Ry. president Stanley Crane is now at the he... (more)

My father was at the exact same location of his Iron Horse Ramble 26 years laters to record this excursion with preserved Reading diesels, C630 5308 and GP30 5513. There clearly has been a lot of... (more)

Rebuilt SP Alco C630 No. 3148 sits outside the shops in early morning light. A big Alco in these parts is a rarity, since power assigned to Roseville is almost exclusively EMD.

Spending its last years in ore service in Ohio, former Reading C630 5303 rests in the roundhouse at Mingo Junction. The SDP45 to the left stands derelict today in Roanoke, Virginia as part of the... (more)

A Lot of Horsepower for a Transfer Run

A quartet of six-axle Alco diesels (C628s and C630s) heads east out of the Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, on a... (more)

A Sled Where It Never Snows

Among the engine sets handling switching duties at the Southern Pacific's large West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, on March 2, 1975, are SP C-63... (more)

Waiting for the winter to pass.