The two biggest steamers on the Ohio Central, CP 1293 and GTW 6325, in the background, bask in the late afternoon sun.
GTW 6325 rests on Thursday, Media Day for TrainFestival 2004, a day before it would put on a grand show for the masses all weekend.
An ex-NC Ports Fairbanks-Morse that OHCR just acquired, sits in the display line at Dennison the day before TrainFestival 2004 starts. It still wears its NC Ports paint scheme.
OHCR 2912 sits on the west side of town, all by itself. Notice the crude "Penn Central" scratched on the long hood, and the PC "Worms in Love" logo further back.
NJT ALP46 4611 eases under the old PRR signals at MP 47 and prepares to make a southbound stop at Princeton Jct.
NJT ALP44 4421 works hard accelerating the train northward through Princeton Jct. and on to NYC.
While a NJT train makes its station stop, AMTK 953 flies past southward, on a normally northbound track, with a three-car Keystone train.
A tiny 0-4-0 sits on display in the parking lot of Warther's Carvings, in Dover, Ohio. Any info on this loco would be greatly appreciated.
Two ex-UP SD50s, 5017 and 5033, sit next to the sanding tower, awaiting their next job. Another SD50 can be seen in the enginehouse in the background.
The engineer of AMTK 64, the eastbound Maple Leaf, looks back over his train during the station stop outside of Buffalo. On an adjacent track, CSX GP38-2 2805 pauses momentarily while switching so... (more)
A broadside view of Livonia Avon & Lakeville's ex-GBW C424 320. The 320 sits at the head of a line of locomotives beside the railroad's main shops.
An all trailer 21M heads into the setting sun as seen from the abandoned bridge in Cassandra.
As heavy snow moves in, NS 9847 crawls uphill, slipping on the cold, wet rail as it leads an eastbound stacker underneath the signal bridge at Lilly.
Helpers NS 3346 and PRR 3341 sit at MO waiting for 18N to pass so they can follow it back down the hill to Altoona. The red dashes are the EOT on the last autorack of 18N as it heads east. Fuji Fi... (more)
With the sun setting quickly, the light was perfect for a few shots of the local Hastings power sitting alongside the CP Minneapolis - Milwaukee main.
