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)

BN 4366, 2543, 2545, and 2532 lead a Inside Gateway job somewhere on the WP in this slide from my collection. I traded for this one years ago, no legible photographer name on mount.

BN 4360 at Vancouver. Slide was traded for years ago, no photographer information.

In the early 1970's, EMD and GE simply could not meet the power demands of railroads, and as a result, railroads such as the Clinchfield, who ran big trains in mountain territory and required big ... (more)

BN 4361, an Alco C636 revs up to head out of Cook Siding on the Washington side of the Columbia River. The eastbound train headed from Vancouver, WA to Wishram has just met two westbound freights ... (more)

BN 4361, a rare Alco C636, waits on its eastbound freight at Cook siding along the Columbia River while a westbound freight rushes by. The train held for two westbounds before continuing on to Wis... (more)