Passing the local at Creekside Millwork. One of the Arcade & Attica Railroad's steam-powered excursion trains passes a company local freight job at the siding that serves Creekside Millwork, one of many small industrial complexes that dot the shortline that runs from Arcade to North Java, NY. Interestingly, both of the locomotives pictured here are products of the American Locomotive Company, albeit a little more than 30 years apart. On the left, Consolidation #18 is a 1920-vintage Alco, which last served the Boyne City Railroad in Michigan, before coming here in 1962. The diesel-electric #114 on the right was originally built for the Delaware & Hudson Railroad as an RS-3 and modified to its current configuration as an RS-3m in 1975. This locomotive is the newest and largest addition to the Arcade & Attica's stable of diesel power, arriving here in 2023.
This image was captured during a May 2025 photo shoot on New York's Arcade & Attica Railroad, organized by Dynamo Productions. For this event, steam locomotive #18 was turned to face south to provide some new and unusual scenes for this railroad. Normally, a southbound steam excursion would be running tender-first at this location.
Images depicting both passenger and freight operations on New York's Arcade & Attica Railroad. The Arcade & Attica has been running steam tourist excursions in Western New York since the early 1960s.
New York state has the largest number of ALCO diesel locomotives working in everyday service. Here are some of them. Soon I hope to chronicle all of them.
