Sunny Saturday Sand Dump | On a humid Saturday, July 1, 2023 morning, an Arkansas & Missouri Railroad sand train prepares to dump ten carloads at Eagle Redi-Mix Concrete in Rogers, AR. Five... (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 Flowers | Rolling through the valley near Lancaster, AR as it heads south on the former Frisco mainline, the Arkansas & Missouri excursion train crosses one of several bridges over Frog... (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)

Almost Home | Cruising through Johnson, AR just after a rainstorm on a cool Wednesday, April 26, 2023, the northbound excursion train on the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad heads past the Amer... (more)

Smoking Alcos At The Bayou | Like a true Alco, C420 number 44 puts out some smoke as it leads the southbound Arkansas & Missouri Railroad excursion train across Frog Bayou at Lancaster, AR ... (more)

Dirt Road At Chester | The southbound Arkansas & Missouri Railroad excursion train, headed for Van Buren, cruises down the line approaching the community of Chester, AR on Wednesday, April ... (more)

Wednesday In Winslow | Alco C420 number 44 leads the southbound Arkansas & Missouri Railroad excursion train through the middle of Winslow, AR on a cool Wednesday, April 26, 2023.

Alco Diesels Under Dark Skies | Having picked up some speed after tooling through Fayetteville, the Van Buren excursion train crosses Dye Creek Rd. just north of West Fork, AR on a gloomy W... (more)

Poking Through Town | The southbound Arkansas & Missouri Railroad's excursion train to Van Buren is seen here slowly rolling through the cut near downtown Fayetteville, AR on the morning of... (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)

A&M ALCO's in 2022: Finally having made it back to Springdale, the S/B Monett Turn follows the RCL job, like a predator stalks its prey. The RCL job is finished for the day and is heading b... (more)

A&M ALCO's in 2022: After a derailment on the Fort Smith bridge in early May stranded 3 for A&M's SD70's, the ALCO C420's were pressed back into road service. Just past a slow order, the S/... (more)