Idling Alligator
Here we see a former Santa Fe Alco RSD15; I believe it was owned by the Squaw Creek Coal Company at the time I ran across it. I have some history of this very distinctive unit here...
9842 RSD15, was built by Alco in June 1960, #83578, as Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 842. It was renumbered 9842 Class 9800, in 1970, and sold to Precision National Corp in 1975. They sold it to Squaw Creek Coal Company as 9842 in 1975. It later became Peabody Coal Company 9842 and then was sold to Indiana Hi-Rail as 9842 in 1988. It was soon renumbered 442. It was sold to Austin & Texas Central as 442 in 2000 (source).
I’m not sure where I was when I saw this locomotive: Boonville or Yankeetown, Indiana, perhaps. [Someone of FB has since told me this is two or three miles north of Boonville.]
Two images by Richard Koenig; taken November 1977.