Portland bound BN train coming off Columbia River main passing Vancouver Amtrak station

DL 3642 prepares to leave Steamtown with a local train on July 4th.

Santa Fe Barstow shops

Power mingles at BN's Portland engine facility

Cloudy marine air prevails as a BN manifest rolls east along the Columbia River on the former SP&S mainline west of Bingen, WA. Led by Alco C636, BN 4361, former SP&S 331, the consist features two... (more)

ICG Century 636 #1101 idles under the sand tower at Oak Street Yard on a frigid morning. It and its sister Alcos regularly worked between Paducah and Louisville in the Seventies.

DL job SPG3 makes it's way back to Scranton with the classic and noteworthy C636 Nº3642 leading the westbound leg.

It lives! The cold 251E series Alco prime mover within the DL C636 Nº3642 breathes to life shortly after sunrise in Scranton, Pa. Later in the morning, the 3642 will be placed in a consist for g... (more)

C636 Nº3642 leads M636 Nº3643 on the return run of SPG3 to Scranton.

BN's big C636's were powerful but trouble plagued units. I was fortunate enough to actually see a number of them in service in the summer of 79. I also picked up a number of slides in trade or pur... (more)

Two Penn Central Alco C636s head up a transfer run heading east on the Indiana Harbor Belt as it passes under the Rock Island mainline at Blue Island, IL. The 6333 was built in March 1968 and beca... (more)