Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 type steam locomotive #765, built by Lima Locomotive works in 1944, with a tractive effort of 64,135 lbs, ready to depart Norfolk Southern's Bison yard with the 'Erie Limit... (more)

Eastbound NKP765 excursion gingerly crosses the venerable bridge at Portageville.

Celebrating passing the 5M page-view mark here at railpictures.net with these uploades, John is pleased his photos are appreciated by those born in the new millennia, and feels very connected by w... (more)

Alco-designed cab units New York & Lake Erie FPA-4 #6764 & FPA-2 #6758 rest with their passenger train at the depot on the former Erie Lackawanna right-of-way in Gowanda, NY. For more pics & video... (more)

Erie Lackawanna Train no. 1, the westbound Phoebe Snow, is ready to depart Hoboken for Scranton, Binghamton, Elmira, Jamestown, Youngstown and points west for Chicago.

Sharply on time at 10:30 a.m. on May 16, 1967, after idling most of the night two Erie-Lackawanna E8s crack open the throttle to move the 7-car Lake Cities Train 6 out of Dearborn Station for the ... (more)

Erie Lackawanna 912 sits out of service in Port Jervis, in need of a new windshield.

A brace of westbound, Erie Lackawanna F-3's are part of the morning rush, through Smithboro, New York This location offered trains, routed via both Scranton, PA. and Port Jervis, NY. The foregrou... (more)

A real surprise to see a PA on a freight at Port Jervis, they usually stayed on the west end of the EL.

A Buffalo - Sayre train rolls thru Hornell without stopping for a crew change just after sunrise.

EL 860 and 859 race an eastbound trailer train into Kent, Ohio. This was the only time I saw back-to-back ALCO PA's pulling a train, and what a surprise it was. Notice how the sweep of the tracks ... (more)

This railfan excursion was sponsored by the Branford Electric Railway Assn. and toured several former Erie and Lackawanna lines. It was powered by the only two PA-2 units and the entire train seem... (more)

Alco PA-1 853 now belongs to Erie-Lackawanna but still wears Erie green, its second color scheme. This was a Saturday morning and this unit and several RS-3 units were idle in the small yard.

Former Erie PA-1 852 has cut off a passenger train from Hoboken at Port Jervis.

Perfectly matched and consecutively numbered GP35s 2560, 2561 & 2562 pull an eastbound freight through Port Jervis in the late afternoon. EL was running its second generation power in matched sets... (more)