The Salamanca-Machias-West Valley local switches at Ashford Junction to get the empty hoppers right to go to Machias. I dropped the SIRI and headed this way just in time to beat the train to this... (more)

The roar of EMD prime movers and the echo of the horn fills the valley as a Buffalo & Pittsburgh coal extra cruises north past the old BR&P AD Tower at Ashford, New York after a late season snow f... (more)

With former SP tunnel motor GEXR 3054 on the point, Buffalo & Pittsburgh's X-COAL passes by the old tower at Ashford Junction in Ashford, New York. This concrete interlocking tower was once the ju... (more)

Buffalo and Pittsburgh train SIBF (Salamanca, NY - Buffalo, NY) works its way northbound as it passes the ex BR&P interlocking tower at Ashford Junction with a quintet of EMD SD40 variants for pow... (more)

Buffalo & Pittsburgh train X-BFSI (Buffalo, NY - Salmanca, NY) has a pair of EMD SD60s for power as it passes through Ashford Jct.

Buffalo & Pittsburgh train X-BFSI (Buffalo, NY - Salamanca, NY) passes "AD" tower in Ashford, NY with a train for interchange with the WNYP in Salamanca. Built in 1914 by the Buffalo, Ro... (more)

With former SP tunnel motor GEXR 3054 on the point, Buffalo & Pittsburgh X-COAL passes by the tower at Ashford Junction. This concrete interlocking tower was once the junction of the BR&P's Roches... (more)

BFSI passes the Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh tower at Ashford Junction. Ashford is where the Buffalo Branch split from the main line to Rochester. In the 1990s, a failing bridge near Springville... (more)

A single GP38 heads south through Ashford returning from Arcade with about 10 cars.

The snowplow waits on the old main to Buffalo as a Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40-2 leads a B&P coke train through Ashford Junction, kicking up a cloud of fresh snow as it heads toward Machias. Note: P... (more)

With the setting sun at it's back, a B&P coke train kicks up a cloud of snow as it passes the shuttered tower at Ashford Junction.

Locomotives:
WE 6387 SD40-2
WE 6992 SD40-2
BPRR ... (more)

A very late Salamanca to Buffalo Turn job works back to Salamanca and points south. This is normally a night time operations, but heavy delays in Buffalo has the train running in the morning light... (more)

B&P train 'BFSI' rolls south out of Buffalo with a heavy manifest. The train made a rare day light appearance on this portion of the railroad due to the large amount of snow in Buffalo hampering o... (more)