A fate worse than death? Maybe not but life was hard for an old unit on BS&G's makeshift railroads. One of the last truly ragtag old southern operations. Ramshackle "Snaptrack" laid on... (more)

Tacoma Municipal Belt line Alco S4 930 is down for truck work at the roads shop in Tacoma on a rare sunny day in the fall of 1977

Maine Central Alco S4 314 works the roads yard in the early morning on a fine summer day in 1978. Oh how I enjoyed the sound of that turbo 539 engine working the yard

Steamposh And Central Vermont On Saturday, October 21, 2023, the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum hosted its 19th Annual Night Photo Shoot. This museum in Willimantic, Connecticut a the ... (more)

Out of service. No info on where this unit came from or what became of it. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Five Santa Fe Alco S4s sit by the roads Roundhouse in September 1976 these units lasted a while longer because i got to see them again in Chicago in 1979

Lead unit of the Rail Explorers pedal their "speeder" past an S4 of Delaware & Hudson heritage (ex D&H 3036) on what looks to be a fun activity. Five such contraptions followed.

This engine would be scrapped here in 1996, after this unfortunate remnant of the Erie had failed. Photo by unknown, from my collection.

A pair of Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad Alco S4's see some rare mileage as they are posed in the Village of Cooperstown for a photo charter on a rather gloomy spring afternoon. This also... (more)

Back to back buttheads on a local freight. I love it! And one in this B&M inspired scheme. Maine weather, not so much.

I caught the green American Locomotive Company (Alco) S4 shoving cars back to the CMC Steel. She is lettered for the Chattahoochie Locomotive company, CLCX 1110, and painted for StarPets. Before b... (more)

PORTLAND OR Aug 20 1981 — Portland Terminal S4 43 goes about its switching duties at Lake Yard. Alco built the unit for North Pacific Terminal (b/n 79560) as NPT 43 in March 1952. When the line ... (more)

Impossibly Stranded. The story of the San Diego and Arizona Railway (later San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway) is a several volume tale, and so, in brief - Dubbed “The Impossible Railr... (more)

Maine Central's Beautiful Alco S4s 315 and 314 work the yard at Bangor On a Beautiful summer morning in July 1978

Back On The Road. Buffalo Southern 93 (Ex-South Buffalo, S4, 1951) has been recently reactivated and added to the railroad's fleet. The perfect job for this veteran switcher came around on ... (more)