Burlington Northern S4 919 switching in Duluth MN April 1971. BN 919 was built as NP 719 in May 1953 and retired in May 1973. There are a couple hallmarks of the NP on display with this unit inclu... (more)

Northern Pacific S4 722 switching Rices Point Yard in Duluth June 1970. The 722 was built in December 1953 and retired in August 1972. These Alco S-Series switchers were the backbone of the NP in ... (more)

During the 1983 season, the Cape Cod & Hyannis tourist railroad utilized leased Bay Colony Alco switchers to power its trains. Here the last trip of the day on the Falmouth branch cruises past an ... (more)

The pair of Alco S4s in charge of the Green Mountain's daily freight between Bellows Falls and Rutland have almost reached the top of the big grade that crests at Summit as they slowly grind uphil... (more)

Vermont Railway S4 6 and its short train roll through Proctor on the way way back to Rutland after working the Clarendon & Pittsford trackage around Florence, VT. This Alco was a secondhand acquis... (more)

Passenger service on the Grafton & Upton ended in 1928, but fifty years later the classic country station at West Upton, MA, was still standing. I believe it was being used as an office by a local... (more)

On a rainy spring morning, the Grafton & Upton's daily freight between Hopedale and North Grafton makes its way through West Upton, MA, behind Alco S4 1001. Unlike many small shortlines at the tim... (more)

Having departed the railroad's headquarters town of Hopedale, MA, as a light engine move, Grafton & Upton S4 1001 rolls through the November woods en route to West Upton where it will pick up its ... (more)

An S-4 hauls a freshly outshopped Tempo train consist. The RS-18 3153 was one of six rebuilt in 1967 by CN for the new Tempo service that was inaugurated in southwest Ontario in 1968. The units ... (more)

In September 1972, a visit (my first) to Santa Fe's Corwith Yard in southwest Chicago netted a heard of zebras in the form of both black and silver and black and white Illinois Northern Alco S4s i... (more)

CACX 104 next to the Milford Depot.

During its first two years of operation, the Cape Cod & Hyannis tourist railroad relied on leased Bay Colony Alco switchers to power its trains. Bay Colony 1058 has just completed running around i... (more)

During its first two years of operation, the Cape Cod & Hyannis tourist railroad relied on leased Bay Colony Alco switchers to power its trains. Bay Colony 1058 led this Buzzards Bay-Hyannis train... (more)

MLW S-4 switcher no. 7113 leads a block of mixed freight through trackage in CP's waterfront yard along the Burrard Inlet below downtown Vancouver on a rainy June 1976 day. The Action Red scheme s... (more)

1055 swings it’s caboose to the other end of its freight to get in position to head back to North Conway