Wheeling & Lake Erie local 611 (Rook Yard-Bruceton turn) crosses high above the bustling downtown in Castle Shannon, PA taking a cut of cars to the Alleghany Valley RR interchange in Bruceton, PA.... (more)
Toledo bound train 223 heads west on a beautiful fall day. The 300 was once a nice looking UP engine, but a year or two ago the yellow paint was redone in black, resulting in the present hybrid p... (more)
A local returns to Rook with the unique WE 300 on the point.
It seems that every regional railroad has at least one engine on the roster that looks like hell. On the W&LE, that engine is the 300, which wears an unusual patch job over its Union Pacific live... (more)
NS KL82 has W&LE 6316 & W&LE 300 bringing up the end of a short KL82 as it heads for the Wheeling bridge. My Subaru chase vehicle sits to the left of the ex-UP unit trailing.
Wheeling & Lake Erie GP40 #300 sits quietly in the yard in Parkertown, Ohio awaiting it's next assignment hauling gravel from the pit. 300 started life as NYC 3044 and then went to the CNW, UP, a... (more)
392 gets ready to depart Rook, running as a light engine move on this afternoon.
A UP local in Missouri? Nope, it's the afternoon W&LE train from Rook, #392 en route to the coke plant in Monessen.
392 emerges from the shadows and is briefly illuminated by the sun's low rays.
The only WE train I've ever seen.... isn't even really a WE train.
Hagerstown grain heads east through a bucolic section of Brookline.
Another colorful consist on the Wheeling, one GP40-3 and a visiting NS GP38-2.
The house below gives a good sense of scale when looking at Mingo Creek Viaduct.
Today's 392 has a cut of cars for SWP interchange, in addition to its usual consist of coke hoppers.
