With available motive power tight, when the normal Bellows Falls switcher had to get some TLC, the veteran GRMC Alco RS-1 was called to service to handle switching duties. Seen on the causeway be... (more)

GMRC stretches her "legs" for the first time in 2021 put to work as the Riverside Switcher. Here she brings a car from the Bellows Falls yard across the causeway to Riverside Reload.

A Alco RS 1 # 5641 of the N de M railway sits by the road shop in Juarez Mexico on a Spring day in 1979. At this time there were many Alco units In use here. Two RS 1s switched the yard here

ICG hung on to the ex-GM&O RS-1s a lot longer than many of us expected, even repainting a few. I was a GM&O fan, but I had to admit the orange and white looked pretty good when first applied. It... (more)

For many years prior to the 1972 merger with IC, RS-1s were workhorses for GM&O around Montgomery, handling switching, transfers and the daily turn to Union Camp near Prattville. By 1975, in spit... (more)

Vermont Railway Holiday special in Burlington Vermont on a cold snowy night

GMRC 405 (née-Rutland RS-1) leads the Fall Foliage Train from Chester to Ludlow at Church St. in Chester, VT.

IRM RS-1 #4, nee DSSA #103, switches former Angelina & Neches River Railroad 2-6-0 #208 to make track space at the depot for the Spirit of Jasper passenger train.

East Penn Railroad's Alco RS-1 57 (ex-Black River and Western RR, née Washington Terminal 57, built in 1948) sits on display in Quakertown, PA, between the former Reading Station and freight hous... (more)

East Penn Railroad's Alco RS-1 57 (ex-Black River and Western RR, née Washington Terminal 57) sits on display in Quakertown, PA, next to the former Reading Company's surviving 1902 built freight ... (more)

CNW RS-1 1068 waits for a rail train to pass before continuing with its work in January of 1974. Both trains are on CNW's New Line in St. Francis. The Island Job has a group of piggyback cars that... (more)

Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad RS1 #97, with the name "Old Ninety Seven" on the cab above the number, outside the shop complex. #97 was built by Alco in November 1947 as Washington ... (more)

The infamous GMRC 405! With the Governor of Vermont calling on all residents to spread some holiday cheer with the "Light the Way" initiative, the Vermont Rail System answered the call. ... (more)

As the Vermont Railway Christmas train sits in Chester on a fridged night, a winter halo occurs with the waxing moon above. In addition to the winter halo, the planet Mars can be seen just to the ... (more)

A year of uncertainty. While 2020 has generally been a year of downs, one up has certainly brought the Christmas spirit to Vermont. The VRS Christmas train sits on the track that would normally ho... (more)