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

MLW built "Alco" S-4 no. 7117 gets a chance to pull the "Canadian", even if it is only from the depot along the Burrard Inlet through a tunnel under the city of Vancouver, BC, ... (more)

One of GMR's two, ex-D&H S-4's brings a passenger train into Bellows Falls after a run to Chester.

The Ogdensburg and Norwood's only engine switches the Penn Central interchange at Norwood, NY. Until going out of business in 1963 the Rutland Railway terminated at Ogdensburg, NY on the St. Lawr... (more)

Showing its Baltimore & Ohio heritage, South Branch Valley S4 17 stands outside the engine house in Moorefield, West Virginia. Inside the house, a sister Alco has been fully rebranded.

The Portland Terminal Company was a Maine Central subsidiary that handled local switching in Maine's largest city with a fleet of Alco switchers and also ran Rigby Yard in South Portland on behalf... (more)

A flock of Santa Fe Alco S2s and S4s gathers on the turntable tracks at Santa Fe's roundhouse in Bakersfield, CA.

A local switcher job moves off the main track and into the small yard at St. Henri. It will then reverse onto the West Side Canal Bank Track to service a number of industries.