A 1981 trip to the Midwest included a few absolutely miserable weather days in the Ohio River Valley. One of the biggest prizes on those days was a chance to photograph one of seven Alco S5’s ever built. Six of those units went to the Boston & Maine, while the seventh, Alco demonstrator 909, went to Island Creek Fuel & Transportation Company, a river barge operation that primarily hauled coal for parent Island Creek Coal Company. Eventually the 1954 Alco found its way to Jeffboat, a large boatyard in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The information that I can find suggests that the unit was scrapped on site in the 1990’s.
Photographs where trains and people mix, weather it's street running, plant switching or carrying a unit grain train out of an elevator, it will be put here.
Not
just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
