Apache Alco Awesomeness
2024 has sort of been the "year of the ALCO" for me, at least compared to most years. After an August visit to the LAL and B&H, September found me in eastern Arizona with a pretty flexible schedule, and so finally visiting the famous Apache Railway was a high priority.
The APA is down to running generally only once a week to the interchange at Holbrook from their headquarters down near Snowflake, Arizona, plus occasionally extra moves due to wind turbine parts trains that have been being delivered periodically. But as a classy railroad with really nice people, they certainly put on a good show when they do run!
This particular week the primary move turned out to be on Tuesday. The crew ran slightly early because they had a mess to sort out in the yard at Holbrook left by the BNSF, and they would spend several hours switching. But with switching finished, the crew is finally rolling south with the APA 98, 83, and 99 leading the way approaching Romero St. Reaching the edge of yard limits and just starting to dig into the grade up out of town, the three Alco Centuries are doing what Montreal and Schenectady intended them to do best when they left the factory almost 60 years ago.
I would be remiss not to give a huge tip of the hat to Dennis Stern for his great help that made catching this show possible!
Apache Alco Awesomeness
2024 has sort of been the "year of the ALCO" for me, at least compared to most years. After an August visit to the LAL and B&H, September found me in eastern Arizona with a pretty flexible schedule, and so finally visiting the famous Apache Railway was a high priority.
The APA is down to running generally only once a week to the interchange at Holbrook from their headquarters down near Snowflake, Arizona, plus occasionally extra moves due to wind turbine parts trains that have been being delivered periodically. But as a classy railroad with really nice people, they certainly put on a good show when they do run!
This particular week the primary move turned out to be on Tuesday. The crew ran slightly early because they had a mess to sort out in the yard at Holbrook left by the BNSF, and they would spend several hours switching. But with switching finished, the crew is finally rolling south with the APA 98, 83, and 99 leading the way approaching Romero St. Reaching the edge of yard limits and just starting to dig into the grade up out of town, the three Alco Centuries are doing what Montreal and Schenectady intended them to do best when they left the factory almost 60 years ago.
I would be remiss not to give a huge tip of the hat to Dennis Stern for his great help that made catching this show possible!