Parked outside one the massive buildings at the General Electric Schenectady Service Center in Schenectady, New York is one of the plant's switchers, a GE SL-85 centercab. The unit is surrounded b... (more)

End of the line for N&W Alco C630 and four EMD GP9's. 135 was originally numbered 1135. Fortunately 1135 did not get scrapped and is now on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roa... (more)

Nothing quite like a big Alco Century... these were the most lovely of brutes, even a former Penn Central one that had been patched for Conrail. Regarding the black dirt, this was the Pit at Meado... (more)

College/work/etc. entailed weekend/holiday trips. Charge in, get shots and as Ryan Ballard said "friendly wave and a hardy hi yo silver". We we found these, but they were dead on the w... (more)

This veteran will get a second life. CSFN 2081 (Colorado San Francisco & Northern) sits in a field along Highway 93 between Golden and Boulder, Colorado. The EMD G8 was built for Canadian Nation... (more)

A very Rare Bird/ This Is a API620 rebuilt out of a Alco RSD5 at the roads Empalme shops. This I believe was the first unit done. It leads train number 2 into the yard at Nogales on a early morn... (more)

PQ Logistics No. 4065, an Ex-Burlington Northern B30-7AB, that had a leftover cab installed when it was first sold to Mexico, so ir could be leased to industries and be used as an A unit. This lo... (more)

EMD SC, 2 units Blt. 2/35-3/35, as DL&W 425, 426. To P&BR, then Steelton & Highspire, back to P&BR. Repowered with derated (600 hp) 8-567B circa 1962 by P&BR.

By 1980 the RS1s were pretty much relegated to the Edgewater Branch. Today, both the branch and the RS1s are gone, the track is River Road, and the Ford Plant is River Club Apartments. That blue b... (more)

April 29, 1978, Allentown PA - the unique high-short hood LV RS3 (which they acquired from corporate parent Pennsylvania Railroad), was still in her LV colors, be it with stenciled "CR" and Conrai... (more)

Endangered. New York Central Railroad (NYC) S-1 no. 6000 (ALCO/GE, 1904) and T-3a no. 278 (ALCO/GE, 1926) are seen at the Port of Albany, on land where they have been stored for the pas... (more)

Built by the American Locomotive Company in June 1955 as Southern Pacific 1050, this T-6 locomotive was renumbered 1217 in 1965. With 82 on the roster, SP owned more ALCO S-6 locomotives than any... (more)

Built in June of 1952 the RDG 485 had bounced around a bit over its life. Currently it sits awaiting restoration to its former glory at the Reading Company Museum in Hamburg Pennsylvania.

Three Alco RSD15 Gators and an RSD4 lead a Empty coal train into the Utah Railways yard on a Beautiful late afternoon in September 1976

ATSF train number 21, El Capitan, is seen near Wootton Colorado in 1944. ATSF 1797 and ATSF E6, number 13, have thirteen cars in tow doing 25 MPH on rugged Raton Pass. Otto Conrad Perry photo from... (more)