New York's only steam tourist line. The Arcade & Attica Railroad's Locomotive #18 sits in front of the company's engine shop in Arcade, NY, building steam in a steady light rain, as she prepares to participate in a May 2025 photo shoot organized by Dynamo Productions.
The Arcade & Attica is New York State's only steam tourist railroad and has been in existence since the 1960s. The railroad possesses two steam locomotives, but the one pictured here is the only one that is operable at the moment. This roughly 70-ton product of the American Locomotive Company was built in 1920 for a Cuban sugar mill, but the deal was never consummated. The engine ended up being sold to the Michigan-based Charcoal Iron Co., and later, the Newberry Lumber & Chemical Co. In 1946, she was sold to the Boyne City Railroad, also in Michigan, where she was used in regular freight service until 1950. She was stored serviceable as reserve power until 1962, when the Arcade & Attica became aware of her and acquired her for tourist operations. Since the 1960s, this engine has operated off and on here, alternating with the line's other steam engine, the 4-6-0, ten-wheeler #14.
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.
