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)

Portland Terminal S4 1062 moves a lone side-dump car as it switches Rigby Yard in Portland, Maine..

Langford USA. Almost like the Field Of Dreams, a farm off of State Route 75 in Langford, North Collins, New York is the location of an outdoor museum of transportation, the Langford Steam a... (more)

Ontario Midland heads home from interchange with CSX in Newark with engine #3 painted in colors honoring the late NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt.

Ontario Midland heads home from interchange with CSX in Newark with engine #3 painted in colors honoring the late NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt.

Shortline Algiers Winslow and Western Alco S 4 number 2 rests outside the railroads engine house in the fall of 1978. Showing signs of a Mishap in the past but very much intact

CACX 102 leads a Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley private charter past a crossing in Index, NY. The entire consist was just the engine and caboose, but it was well worth the "chase", despite the tor... (more)

The Green Mountain Railroad leads a northbound freight in East Wallingford, Vermont.

Newly married and off to a new career in California and thrilled to see SP in it's native land. Back in the day when large crews decorated the end platforms and Alcos were rather commonplace.

The switch crew has pulled the empty grain boxcars from the Occident Flour mill in south Buffalo.