Probably Labor Day Weekend. Note this unit was built with regular (rail spreading) Alco trucks. Demoted to yard service the massive assemblage of tractive effort is assisting an inbound freight.

Reading Company Technical & Historical Society

End of the line for N&W Alco C630 and four EMD GP9's. 135 was originally numbered 1135. Fortunately 1135 did not get scrapped and is now on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roa... (more)

Nothing quite like a big Alco Century... these were the most lovely of brutes, even a former Penn Central one that had been patched for Conrail. Regarding the black dirt, this was the Pit at Meado... (more)

The crew on this westbound transfer, hauling cars from the Southern Pacific's Colton Yard to the then-still-fairly-new West Colton Yard, look pretty relaxed as they wait for a Santa Fe westbound t... (more)

Southern Pacific's West Colton Yard opened in 1972, and for use on the hump the railroad purchased six SD38-2s to be mated with slugs built from retired Alco C-628s and C-630s. But the SP kept ex... (more)

The Reading Company Technical & Historical Society's Alco Century 630, in a static pose during the Blue Mountain and Reading's 1991 Railfan Weekend. Several runbys were also performed here, in ad... (more)

L&N Alco C630 # 1427 rests at a small yard in Chicago in the summer of 1979 i those days a lot of Alcos could still be found in the Chicago area and this yard seemed to always have a Big century a... (more)

A C630, GP-35 combination leads westbound freight over the Neill Drive overpass at West Falls. The Reading's cheery colors for their second generation diesel power provided a nice contrast with th... (more)

Alco Century 630 No. 5308 posed with EMD GP30 No. 5513 at the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern / Reading Company Technical & Historical Society 1991 railfan weekend night photo session- down by ... (more)

The not-normally photographed end of Reading Tech’s restored C630 is leading an excursion out of South Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The big Alco is still in South Hamburg today, but it’s unlikely th... (more)

A three-builder set of locomotives has an empty coal rain really rolling just a few minutes out from the yard at Corbin.

Cheating the Executioner

By the time that this photo was taken in May, 1979, Conrail’s big Alco’s were making their last stand in Ohio ore service. They would soon be cut up, b... (more)

Union Pacific's 10 big Alco Century 630's 2900-2909 bought in 1966, fared poorly on the UP. By early 1974 all were sold to Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range, where they stayed only briefly. The DM&IR... (more)

An ex-PRR Century 630 that still proudly sports its Pennsy keystone heads up a pair of EMDs on a northbound Penn Central freight that's coming off the West Shore route and joining the B&A mainline... (more)