On a very warm spring afternoon, the Saturday DL PT98 job ambles into the Delaware Water Gap with DL 3643 2461 2423 3000 & 3642 with fifty cars for the NS swap at Portland.

DL PT-98 navigates its way through the Delaware Water Gap on a gorgeous Spring early afternoon

A five unit set of Alcos lead PT98 down the "Old Road" towards the interchange with NS at Portland. The abandoned DL&W cutoff can be seen in the background.

PT-98 rolls downgrade through Henryville shortly after working Bestway in Cresco. The entire train is visible from this angle, and you can barely discern the yellow railings of the two units at t... (more)

PT-98 rolls toward Portland with five light units, all in "corporate" paint. The crew had dropped their train at Gravel Place and would later bring a heavy train west from the NS interch... (more)

PT-98 accelerates out of Moscow with a generous display of "Alco smoke" on an unusually warm autumn day in the Poconos. At right is the nicely restored former Lackawanna freight house.

PT-98 slows on the approach to the siding adjacent to Horizon Milling in Mount Pocono. The crew will pick up a large cut of empty grain cars before proceeding east to Slateford Junction.

Delaware-Lackawanna train PT-98 races uphill, passing the former Lackawanna station in Moscow, powered by three big Alco 636's of CP, PC, and BCOL origins, and an ex-BCOL MLW M420W. Once PT-98 cre... (more)

PT97 returns from the Water Gap after dropping off a roughly 50 car train for NS, bringing back only about 10 cars. The train departed Scranton with 11 cars, and returned with only 4. Not much m... (more)

Doing a brisk pickup at Gravel Place on a beautiful morning in the Poconos. Crew originated at Mount Pocono today for the Slateford/Portland interchange.

"Hauling Thru Toby"

"ALCos in motion"

Delaware Lackawanna's thrice-weekly local PT-98 is seen arriving at Portland PA, where it will swap cars with NS H76 and return to Scranton as PT-97.<... (more)

"ALCOs & MLWs Along Snag Pond"

PT97 crawls through the 10 MPH slow order, but the 6 Alcos and MLWs are working hard to keep the train, which is mostly loaded grain hoppers, moving up the 1.59% ruling grade along the former DLW ... (more)

DL 3643 leads a 6 locomotive mix of Alcos and MLWs through the Delaware Water Gap with a long train, putting on a nice show of smoke and making a wonderful noise as the engineer works to keep the ... (more)