Bob Zwiers photo.

ALCo 1512 at the new Aveiro harbour branch line under construction.

Anaheim Alco

Southern Pacific S6 1213, seen in Anaheim, California, on March 2, 1975, was built by Alco in June 1955 as SP 1046.

Continuing the story from photo, 595404. After ME-2 completed its set-out at Bound Brook, my father and I drove to Middlesex to get a picture of ME-2 from the Mountain Avenue bridge. In an unusu... (more)

Iowa Interstate's former D&H RS36 leads a trio of EMDs as it drags a train past Joliet Tower and across the Santa Fe main on a warm spring day. Tom Golden photo.

NDC 7210, a RS11 built in 1956, pulls a cut of loaded hoppers to the NS interchange.

NDC 7210, a RS11 built in 1956, pulls a cut of loaded hoppers out of the Industrial Park in Northampton, PA today as the engineer gives a smoke show while throttling up. Took me a few times to fin... (more)

CNW 6721 awaits her fate along with the rest of the Alco C628 fleet in Escanaba, MI in September of 1988. After a long, productive career on both the N&W and the C&NW, all the units would unfortun... (more)

The Octoraro Railway ran an excursion over the former Reading Wilmington & Northern branch from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania to Montchanin, Delaware and return. Once back in Chadds Ford, the mixed tr... (more)

Ohio River Companies rare Alco S6 switches the Kenova coal facility in October of 1995.

As mainline Alco’s were being phased out on most Class 1 railroads, the Delaware & Hudson became large draw with its sizable fleet of RS’s and Centuries. When the New York Susquehanna & Wester... (more)

One half of LIRR's L2 class C420's (222-229) rest at Holban Yard awaiting their next freight train assignment. Bumped by GP38-2's from most passenger runs in 1976, 22 of the C420's were retired, a... (more)

Heading up the line of stored mostly ALCOs is former KBS RS-11. Lokks like it slated to get in line for GVT paint in the near future.

A 1981 trip to the Midwest included a few absolutely miserable weather days in the Ohio River Valley. One of the biggest prizes on those days was a chance to photograph one of seven Alco S5’s ev... (more)

Fresh from the paint shop, CNW 4248 leads a short freight out of the yard in Appleton, WI in August of 1984.