One of Alco's rarest locomotives was the 800 hp S-5 switcher. Only seven were built, and the Boston & Maine had six of them. Sharp-looking B&M 863 pushed cars over the Boston freight yard hump at ... (more)

Saint Louis-San Francisco 863, the first of 279 B30-7’s turned out GE, rolls across a short trestle in Carrollton, Texas, on May 2, 1979, headed for Fort Worth. Built in 1977, the 3,000-hp dash-... (more)

The leader photographed me :)

Metrolink 863 pushes LA bound Sunday service train 385 beneath snow-covered Ontario and Cucamonga Peaks in Montclair.