We have two Alcos and on Baldwin out at the Houston Gulf Coast Museum. All three of them still run but we can only power up the prime movers and not put power to the traction motors becaue of our insurance.
Here's Austin & Texas Central RSD-15 #442: Ain't she a beauty? From: ASTA.org They still don't have SP 2-8-2 #786 back yet.
Here is the other S2 after we rubbed some paint off to uncover the Houston Belt & Terminal lettering.
This one's been gone for a while, but back the early 1990s I shot it at the Nekoosa Papers facility south of Ashdown, AR. The plant is now operated by Georgia-Pacific, and this road-switcher pioneer left the building.
Arkansas & Missouri T6 12, one of three 251-powered switchers (and Alco's last switcher model) working in & around Ft. Smith and Van Buren, AR.
Shot this switcher, hors d'combat (one of its trucks is shoved into the dirt off the end of track) at the Great Western Ry. facility, Loveland, CO. August 2005.
Hey, I like that shot of the "Ashdown Alco" you did! When were you prowling close to my back yard? And I hope you got some KCS, Kiamichi, and GN&A action as well (all to be seen in Ashdown).
By the looks of it, I wonder if it has much of a future? I see the hood up on top. Railings bent. And a grab iron askew. Next stop, scrapper? Boxcab E50
Rio Grande SW1000 #143, shoving cut of cars in North Yard, Denver, Co. SW1000 #C997. Newest locomotive on the COORS locomotive roster.
