US Steel's Oliver Iron Mining Alco RS 3 rests by a shop building in Virginia MN in the summer of 1971. A few years later when I went there This place was filled with Baldwin Cow and calf units. o... (more)

DSS&A RS-1 No. 101 compliments the fall colors as they cross over the Sucker River heading back to the depot at Duluth, MN.

NYC Alco RS-11 8008, with three FA's heading west at River Rouge, Michigan near Detroit in March 1962. The NYC RS-11's were delivered in July 1957, not in Lightning stripes, but in black with a w... (more)

Relief is in sight for a Susquehanna Northern Division local that has outlawed at Whitney Point, New York the day before this photo. A C420 from Binghamton has dropped a car at the feed mill in th... (more)

The Toledo, Peoria & Western had two C424’s on its roster. When the time came to divest them, the TP&W sold them to the Morristown & Erie. Here a modestly patched 801, which will become Morrist... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 9, Burlington Jct. Rwy. and the Ugly Duckling: When finished with lunch, the crew promptly gets to work pulling/spotting lumber flats at their transload facility. The little... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 8, Delaware Lackawanna: Now that the big power is tied down for the day at Steamtown, the crew of DL3 jumps on the local power, and heads across Lackawanna Ave, towards the ... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 7, Delaware Lackawanna: Having lifted the outbound mill empties, PO75 starts ahead. The plan is to pull up to clear the mill lead, re line the switch, then pull up to clear ... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 7, Delaware Lackawanna: Back to the Pocono summit now at Mt. Pocono, PO75 comes underneath the Fairview bridge with a their empty center beams from Cresco. Although not very... (more)

Dakota Southern No. 213 is a long, long way from New York, where it used to run in commuter service as Long Island Railroad 213. The track that Dakota Southern operated in South Dakota are now bei... (more)

L&N Alco C630 # 1427 rests at a small yard in Chicago in the summer of 1979 i those days a lot of Alcos could still be found in the Chicago area and this yard seemed to always have a Big century a... (more)

ALCO RS-3 waiting for a time to move locomotives that went to the railway preservation by the ABPF in 2020

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)