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A friend of mine who used to live near Nap said that Mr. Naporano did in fact very much dislike railfans.

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=37018

So they are still in business- that's obvious.
I'm curious, why did they suddenly stop scrapping locomotives on a mass scale in 1994?

Block Line-would you happen to have any shots of Alcos there?

The unit shown in the picture I assume is #8640. That was retired in December 1982 and scrapped at CP's Angus shops two years later. And if you forget about the step in front of the cab to tell the difference between an RS-2 and an RS-3, look at the cab windows on the front or back. Notice the RS-2 ...

They were traded to PNC in January 1980 for a few ex-Southern SD-24's and scrapped [date].

Three questions: What type of horns did the C-636's have? They were some kind of five chime. Also, they were delivered over the engineer's position. Later they were moved over the center of they cab. Why were they moved? I would guess because they were a tad too loud for the crew, but if so, why wer...

Now my question, I recently found a roster of IL shortlines and there was mention of #1330 lettered MALX (would be ex-L&N) Can anyone else confirm and supply more details? Thanks! Well to answer your question... The MALX unit you are referring to is former Monon 513, ex L&N 1330, ex CGRX 13...