RailPictures.Net Photo: Jeffboat 102 Untitled Alco S5 at Jeffersonville, Indiana by Doug Lilly

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» Untitled (more..)
» Alco S5 (more..)

» Unknown
» Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA (more..)
» May 19, 1981

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» Doug Lilly (more..)
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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.

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Make	Plustek
Model	OpticFilm 8200i