" star on the weekends and then hauls freight all week. Completely MUable with all of her younger and more sophisticated cousins." are David J. Monte Verde's complimentary description o... (more)

A puff and a push: RS-3 drills cars in the morning.

Local Attraction: One of the things I love about chasing the Batten Kill Railroad is that it seems like everyone in the small towns along the line stops and takes notice when the tra... (more)

Soldiering On: Near the conclusion of a round trip between Cargill in Salem, NY and Eagle Bridge, NY, Batten Kill Alco RS-3 #4116 leads its train across State Route 22 at Greenwich J... (more)

A pair of Delaware Lackawanna's RS-3s have today off.

A Black River & Western local returns from the Conrail interchange at Three Bridges, passing through Flemington's Turntable Junction shopping center. BRW 1554 is an ex-Jersey Central RS-3 of the ... (more)

The Lehigh & Hudson River Railway owned thirteen Alco RS-3s that comprised its first diesel era road power. Looking like it could really use a bath, L&HR 4 idled outside the line's Warwick, NY, di... (more)

The brakeman returns to the cab after flagging a grade crossing in Adams, MA, as the daily Penn Central local freight out of Pittsfield on the Pittsfield-North Adams branch rolls slowly into town.... (more)

After an unsuccessful, yet beautiful as always drive to North Adams along the Boston and Maine, our luck turned around only just south of Cambridge, NY where we caught up with the Batten Kill Rail... (more)

Detroit & Mackinac Alco RS-3's 974 and 975 with freight train leaving Cheboygan, Michigan's D&M yard on June 27, 1978.

An Amtrak work train behind an RS-3 gets attention from its crew outside Providence Union Station in the Rhode Island capitol. The 1898 station in the background was replaced by the current Amtrak... (more)

Canadian National Alco RS-3 no.3900 and 3901 (nee Central Vermont 1859-1860) worked on the north-end of Montreal commuter line to Deux Montagnes.

Sunset at the Danbury Railway Museum

New Haven RS-3 535 poses with a group of U25Bs and Century 425s at the Maybrook, NY, engine terminal during the railroad's final summer. Once one of the NH's most important freight gateways for tr... (more)

Penn Central didn't like to spend unnecessary money on paint. Former New York Central RS-3 5333 had its old road name and herald painted out and went back to work in complete corporate anonymity. ... (more)