ALCO Safari Day 2: Elusive Creatures Second stop on my ALCO Safari trip was the Mosaic potash terminal in Rosemount, they roster an ALCO S-2 and lease a rebuilt RS-3. On a whim I made a sto... (more)

San Francisco Belt #25 handles a short consist along the Embarcadero.

Columbia & Reading Alco S2 No 2-26, former Chesapeake & Ohio (#5015, then #9165)

The Columbia & Reading Railway operates on approximately 1.25 miles of ex-Reading & Columbia Railroad track i... (more)

CMC Steel enters the ex-Seaboard Yard in Cayce, SC to pick up some cars.

CMC Steel power rests on their facility grounds. The Alco S2 is replacing the EMD SW900. It has been repowered with a Cummins motor.

With just a hint of trademark Alco smoke, Dubois County Railroad Alco S2 No. 78, wearing a fresh coat of Algers, Winslow & Western colors with DCRR lettering, leads a joint DCRR/French Lick Scenic... (more)

On December 13, 2020, Indiana's Dubois County Railroad and their affiliated passenger arm, the French Lick Scenic Railway, operated a photo freight out of French Lick to Dubois featuring DCRR Alco... (more)

CMC Steel South Carolina crew pulls a cut of cars out of the nearby CSX yard in Cayce.

A crew from nearby CMC Steel enters CSX Yard in Cayce, SC to get a few cars for the facility. Meanwhile, new power for the steel mill lurks in the background.

In the final light of the day, Weirton Steel S2 211 hauls slag through Weirton, West Virginia.

It's a typical foggy fall morning in the Appalachia's as WCCX 7 sits rotting outside of the load out it once served, Wellmore Coal.

The Columbia & Reading Railway operates about one and a quarter miles of the timetable western end of the former Reading’s Reading & Columbia Branch. The mainstay business is a scrapyard that ge... (more)

A visit to the Santa Fe Railway’s Redondo Junction Roundhouse on a typically overcast southern California day allowed a visit to a lot of locomotives that would not be in service for much longer... (more)

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Alco S2 no.24 tends to switching chores at Jackson, Mississippi on May 15, 1973. This unit began life on the Alton Railroad in 1945 and would have a thirty-plus year career bef... (more)

An eclectic mix of rail equipment sits on a siding track in Hamburg, New York along the Buffalo Southern Railroad. Pictured here is a former Conrail jordan spreader, Buffalo Southern Alco S2, a pa... (more)