1055 swings it’s caboose to the other end of its freight to get in position to head back to North Conway

MLW built "Alco" S-4 no. 7117 gets a chance to pull the "Canadian", even if it is only from the depot along the Burrard Inlet through a tunnel under the city of Vancouver, BC, ... (more)

One of GMR's two, ex-D&H S-4's brings a passenger train into Bellows Falls after a run to Chester.

The Ogdensburg and Norwood's only engine switches the Penn Central interchange at Norwood, NY. Until going out of business in 1963 the Rutland Railway terminated at Ogdensburg, NY on the St. Lawr... (more)

Showing its Baltimore & Ohio heritage, South Branch Valley S4 17 stands outside the engine house in Moorefield, West Virginia. Inside the house, a sister Alco has been fully rebranded.

The Portland Terminal Company was a Maine Central subsidiary that handled local switching in Maine's largest city with a fleet of Alco switchers and also ran Rigby Yard in South Portland on behalf... (more)

A flock of Santa Fe Alco S2s and S4s gathers on the turntable tracks at Santa Fe's roundhouse in Bakersfield, CA.

A local switcher job moves off the main track and into the small yard at St. Henri. It will then reverse onto the West Side Canal Bank Track to service a number of industries.

The last operating S-4 is rolling along the Salem Branch after picking up cars at Greenwich Junction.

The local is on the Montreal Subdivision mainline crossing West Side Canal Bank Track on the Lachine Canal. Two of the five crew members are getting off to line the switches for the local to reve... (more)

The conductor of a local on the West Side Canal Bank Track is calling the dispatcher to get permission to cross the busy, double track Montreal Subdivision mainline.

Nickel Plate Road Alco S4 79 idles alongside RG&E GE 45 Tonner on a cool September night.

Taken at the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum as part of a night photo session, with lig... (more)

Railfan weekend.