More Alco's then you can shake a stick at

Three EMD SD70ACe locomotives keeps company with some classics and not so classic locomotives on the A&M.

AM 12 sits at the A&M shop on July 4, 2025.

A birds eye look at the Arkansas and Missouri shop in Springdale Arkansas on the July 4th 2025 weekend finds lots of interesting things laying around.

Another whatever happened to? Somewhere in the process of morphing into baked bean cans, or whatever, this sad unit is serving as a parts supply for the Alcos actually on the roster.

Whatever happened to? Somewhere in the process of morphing into baked bean cans, or whatever, this sad unit is serving as a parts supply for the Alcos actually on the roster.

Power for the northbound train is putting cuts together prior to departure. We chased all the way to Monett. Great day.

The A&M RS1, originally build for the ASAB, is ready to pull a former B&M combine on a charter sponsored by the Boston Mountain Chapter NRHS. The locomotive and combine now reside at the National... (more)

Rainbows And Unicorns | Below a brilliant sky on the evening of Monday, April 15, 2024, a pair of the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad's Alco C420s rest at the depot in Springdale, AR. A haven ... (more)

An officer's special is visited from Ft. Smith/Van Buren. The officials are in a hurry to make their dinner reservations at a restaurant in Fayetteville. Chances are they might have bent the thr... (more)

ACes In The Hole | A colorful lashup of four SD70ACes leads the southbound Fort Smith Turn out of Springdale, AR at dusk on a hot Wednesday, June 28, 2023 evening. Despite the different liv... (more)

Modern Day Classics | Just a few hundred feet south of the Springdale, AR depot, Alco C420s numbers 44 and 68 pull their Van Buren-bound excursion train up to speed on the rainy morning of ... (more)

May Monday Morning | Fifteen minutes past eight o'clock on the sunny morning of Monday, May 1, 2023, the southbound Arkansas & Missouri excursion train passes a Tyson feed mill in Springdal... (more)

Just shy of the 10th anniversary of my first visit I made it back to the Alco shrine and found this ex D&H unit basking the soft northern Arkansas sun.

Business took me to Ft. Smith so only a slight detour was needed to do some railfanning and I found this. Freshly in from Essex Terminal but some what obscure. I find no shots of it on this site... (more)