Santa Fe F3 units in A-B-B-B-A formation are ready to depart with the GRAND CANYON. Erie Lackawanna's train 6 had stood in the exact spot just a short time before.
Making up train
F3s wait for assignment at Port Jervis roundhouse
The inbound Scoot headed into Chicago on a clear morning in April 1971. Lead engine is a Phase I F3A. My apologies for mistakenly submitting the wrong shot for this caption earlier!
For steam, time was up, even in freight service.
Kodachrome 10 was not quite fast enough to catch her even on a sunny day.
Lackawanna F3 664 arrives Buffalo, NY alongside Nickle Plate Road Sleeper car City of Lima as the headlight cuts the smoke from the idling steam engines waiting their next assignment. Thanks to Ra... (more)
Lackawanna F3a number 664 get orders handed up during Spring TRAINing night photo session held at Steamtown. Lighting provided by Lerro Productions.
Shot shortly before Amtrak took over unit 24C looks like it has seen better days, and is in San Diegian service
DL&W livery F3s are staged on a photo freight at the entrance to Steamtown
Former CNJ F3s #56 and #57, now DLW 664 and 663 bask in the sun during Steamtown's Labor Day Weekend Railfest.