Smokin’ at McCook
After waiting for a couple of Santa Fe trains to clear the diamond, a long and heavy Belt Railway of Chicago freight gets its turn on the crossing at McCook, Illinoi... (more)

The engineer grabs a couple of notches to start his heavy train up the grade as 5 Alco's lead the Blue Looper coal train south out of Holbrook, AZ on 4/12/12.

October 1941 saw the release of Disney's "Dumbo," the last day of carving on Mount Rushmore, and the almost daily escalation of World War II overseas by the German Reich. It was also the month th... (more)

After a friend told me that 203 had a engine that was smoking it up in South Carolina I was thinking it was a small smoke cloud, but when I saw smoke rising behind the trees coming around the curv... (more)

2 Apache Railway Alcos smoke it up for the photographers as they head south with 5 loads of feed for PF Farmer Johns on 7/24/13.

LV 414 leads two RS-3's for work in Carbondale.

One of the last "big Alco lashup" A&M Monett turns yards their train on the north side of Springdale with six C420's.

Altiplanic power of FCAB, after leaving behind the town of San Pedro and start climbing towards Ascotan (4000 mts), the highest point on the way to Ollagüe.

A freezing fog covers the grass and brush around Adamana at noon on December 27, 1986. Train 2-338, a main line local, has just finished switching a LPG storage facility and is now en route to Win... (more)

Four C420's smoke it up as the southbound turn crests the grade into Purdy, Missouri.

A 7 unit consist puts the northbound FSTN in the wind as the units notch up to climb the grade out of town.

A re-crewed Fort Smith Turn breaks the silence in the crisp morning air as it thunders upgrade at Greenland heavy with sand cars, coming out of the Boston Mountains. The sound of 7 12-251's in run... (more)

CTRR's former Duluth & Northeastern SW-1 33 poses next to a local watering hole. Lighting by Steve Glischinski and Jeff Terry.

Sic transit gloria mundi What has been an everyday sight in the hills of Arkansas will soon just be a memory as generic EMD's take over another ALCO bastion.

AM 34 belches black smoke on the way south to get out of the way of the Monett Turn, arriving from the north.