#ALCO PA

[collinthenychudson]

Two Nickel Plate Road PAs speed past the cornfield of a local farm while en route to Chicago, Illinois with the Nickel Plate Limited.

Models and Route by: Trainz Forge, Jointed Rail, Auran, and Download Station

#NKP #Nickel Plate Road #New York Chicago and St. Louis Railroad #PA #ALCO PA #NKP PA #Diesel Locomotives #Trains #Trainz Simulator

[chwiggy-creative]

Delaware & Hudson

Me, Digital, May 2022 Look at these smokin' hot locos, throwing black plumes of diesel exhaust into the air, while i'm singing, "Don't waste your time on me, you're already the voice inside my head". These Delaware and Hudson ALCO PAs were inspired by a few 1970s photographs by John F. Bjorklund in the archives of the CRP&A.

#train #locomotive #exhaust #art #illustration #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital illustration #digital painting #drawing #affinity designer #delaware and hudson #train art #ALCO PA #diesel fumes

[rodpower78]

From left to right: Southern Pacific PA-2 #6019, PA-2 #6014, and PA-1 #6008 await their next assignments at the West Oakland Shops in 1952. Photo by Stewart Leibman.

#southern pacific #1950s #1952 #alco pa #railroad

[columboscreens]

#columbo #season 6 #the bye bye sky high iq murder case #god just let this man's dumb autistic ass play with these trains already #now sir we did discover that th.......well i'll be! gee it must be awful nice havin a model of the alco PA-1 locomotive #you know that was my favorite engine growin up. what a honey. boy they don't make em like that anymore. what was i sayin

[trainmaniac]

Ridge Row Switching by Joseph Randall Via Flickr: Delaware-Lackawanna Job PO-74 switches out the cars they picked up earlier from NS as DL3 to assemble the train they would be taking up the Poconos. This task ended up taking way longer than it should have because they apparently were asked by the secret service to clear out the yard of any freight cars as a "security measure" in anticipation of Sleepy Uncle Amtrak Joe's visit to Steamtown the next day. Anyways, while this lead to very frustrating wait while they tried to figure out the hell they were even doing, it did at least lead to a nice afternoon chase to Pocono Summit with angles that usually wouldn't be possible to shoot with this lighting in the morning. Also, having the 2452 & 2461 on the point, the two original Erie Lackawanna engines on property, was a nice bonus as well since both of these engines would have regularly ran on this line back in the 60s & 70s. 10-19-21

#Genesee Valley Transportation #GVT #Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad #Delaware-Lackawanna #DL PO-74 #Erie Lackawanna #DL 2452 #American Locomotive Company #ALCO #ALCO C425 #Scranton #PA #Pennsylvania #flickr

[guerrerense]

DL ALCO C420 #405 @ Gouldsboro, PA por Darryl Rule Por Flickr: A quartet of ALCOs lead eastbound PO-74 on the Pocono Main at Gouldsboro, PA on the former Erie Lackawanna mainline. The lead engine has served a variety of railroads including the Lehigh Valley, D&H, Indiana Hi-Rail and now the Delaware Lackawanna.

#2022 #ALCO #DL #Delaware Lackawanna #July #PA #Pennsylvania #flickr

[mega-delicatelysuperbcollector]

IN A FIELD OF DREAMS

In a field of dreams, Supplied by a rich man’s schemes…. Our dream boat stood That one day would Fulfill railroading dreams! – This ALCO*, one of three, On the siding came especially…. To be transformed And uniformed As a mock Lehigh Valley.** – This tourist train over time, Hauled freight up and down the line…. Though the company’s gone The line goes on, Other engines are used on…

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#a field of dreams #ALCO RS-1 #anticipation #Caswell limerick poetry #Flemingville-NY #hauling freight #mock Lehigh Valley paint scheme #one of three #SECOND HAND LOCOMOTIVE #Tioga-PA #tourist train

[unshrinkingviolets]

Introducing the ALCO AT-PA-1: Sixteen cylinders, four legs, one giant plume of smoke.

#alco #at-at walker #alco pa-1 #my art #i am determined to start drawing and posting the goofy ideas I get while i'm in the car #doodles #the galactic empire can build a gun to shoot planets out of the sky but still has problems with turbo lag

[20th-century-railroading]

New Haven Railroad ALCO PA-1 locomotive 0767 wearing the McGinnis paint scheme along with another in the standard paint scheme are seen leading a passenger train along the main line in Providence, Rhode Island, late 1950's

New Haven Railroad ALCO PA-1 locomotive 0767 wearing the McGinnis paint scheme along with another in the standard paint scheme are seen leading a passenger train along the main line in Providence, Rhode Island, late 1950's. A tail end heavyweight coach is seen on a train that is heading in the opposite direction.

#nynh&h #new haven railroad #1950s #trains #passenger train #history #providence #rhode island

[zponds]

A month ago, I made a post showing all my OCs from the Great Northern Railway. Now this post will go over my OCs from the…

Now these engines make up BNSF’s Santa Fe heritage fleet…

and can only be found on railroad territories that were previously owned and operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway… or as it was more commonly known; the Santa Fe Railway. And these engines are…

Blue Jay, the 4-6-4 #3460

Blackberry, the 4-6-4 #3450

Bigwig, the 4-6-4 #3464

Fiver, the 4-8-4 #2928

Chief, the 4-8-4 #2926

Mara, the 2-10-2 #3960

Dukey, the 2-10-2 #3890

Hazel, the 2-10-2 #3864

Gladion, the ALCO PA-1 #51

Clair, the ALCO PA-1 #62

Snitter, the ALCO PA-1 #52

Haywood, the ALCO PA-1 #76 and San Diegan engine

Rudolph, the EMD F7 #306

Harley, the EMD F7 #32 and El Capitan engine

Hoskins, the EMD F7 #24 and Super Chief engine

Angeles, the EMD F7 #326 and San Francisco Chief engine

Dapper Jack, the EMD F7 #338 and Texas Chief engine

Ami, the EMD F7 #330

Ivy, the GE C44-9W #600

Carly, the GE C44-9W #691

Harvey, the EMD SD40-2 #5024

Cali, the EMD SD40-2 #5114

#santa fe #atsf #steam locomotive #steam engine #diesel locomotive #diesel engine #passenger train #passenger cars #freight cars #freight train #train #trains #railroad #railroads #railway #railways #rail #rails #thomas and friends #thomas the tank engine #ttte #ttte oc #locomotive #genie team

[aryburn-trains]

The New Haven's " Yankee Clipper"

The westbound "Yankee Clipper" and its two Alco PA's speeds through Saybrook, CT

Photographed by John Wallace, March, 1949.

#yankee clipper #nynh&h #new haven railroad #1949 #new york city #boston #trains #passenger train #history #saybrook #connecticut

[collinthenychudson]

Hurtling across the rolling plains of Texas, a pair of M-K-T ALCO PAs lead the Northbound Texas Special towards St. Louis, Missouri and other stops along the way. Since 1959, Kansas City would remain as the northern terminus of the train until July 1st, 1965 when the service was discontinued. Despite this, passenger train service from St. Louis to San Antonio still continues on as part of a portion of the modern-day Texas Eagle that's owned and operated by Amtrak.

Models and Route by: Trainz-Forge, Auran, and Download Station

#M-K-T #Missouri-Kansas-Texas #Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad #KATY #The Katy #SLSF #St. Louis–San Francisco #St. Louis–San Francisco Railway #Texas Special #Texas Special Train #ALCO PA #Diesel Locomotive #Trainz Simulator #Trains

[grantgfan]

Hey, Max. Did you know that in October 1962, Union Pacific conducted an experiment?

They made a GTEL of their own, which was meant to run on coal, to see if it’d be better than gas.

They use a modified ALCO PA-1 as the cab…

The chassis of a GNR W1 class electric locomotive, which was bought for scrap from the Great Northern Railway, for the B unit (which carried the main power plant for the turbine) (and this unit carried the turbine prime mover from either a 1st or 2nd gen GTEL)…

And the tender of 4-6-6-4 Challenger #3990…

all this ended up with a wheel arrangement of A1A-A1A+2-D+D-2, which translated to 18 axels (which 12 were powered)

Once put together, the set up had 7000 horsepower and was originally numbered 80, but was changed to 8080 later, in order to avoid confusion with EMD DD35 booster units that were being introduced.

But this thing didn’t work well at all. The blade erosion and soot buildup, which was already kinda an issue with the earlier with the gas-burning GTELs, was WAY worse when using coal. If that wasn’t enough, grinding coal into particles (to avoid as much erosion as possible) was a pain. As a result, this experiment was declared a failure, and 8080 was scrapped after 20 months of service.

But fun fact; during that time, 8080 was the heaviest locomotive ever, weighing at 661 TONS.

max: wow

[rodpower78]

Santa Fe's Fast Mail Express exits a tunnel at Cajon Pass on February 27, 1967. Photo by William Mills.

#atsf #santa fe #1960s #cajon pass #railroad #alco pa #1967 #san bernardino mountains #california

[aryburn-kc]

The one place on the Santa Fe in 1965, where one could be sure of finding an Alco PA or two is Santa Fe’s Argentine engine terminal in Kansas City, Kansas. On October 16, the 77, formerly 61B, passes through the service rack between runs, likely on Trains 7 and 8, the Fast Mail Express, or 3 and 4, the San Francisco Chief. Some worker with a spray gun and a too-quick hand has applied a little silver touch-up to the front buffer. Santa Fe was the first customer for Alco’s handsome PAs, acquiring an A-B-A set in 1946, and then going on to buy 28 A-units and 16 B-units. And it will be one the last roads to operate them in regular service.

#fast mail express #san francisco chief #atsf #santa fe #1965 #chicago #los angeles #san francisco #trains #passenger train #history #argentine yard #argentine #kansas city #kansas

[southjerseyweb]

Railnews Review 2023: Iconic Alco PA Locomotive Heads East For Preservation

In New Jersey, a U34CH was cosmetically restored and an operational restoration moved forward. … Two of the PAs remain south of the border in museums.

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