Arriving at the 1854 South Dayton, NY depot, the first train of the Memorial Day weekend excursions glides to a stop for its short layover. The locomotives will run around before taking the three... (more)

Looking a bit worse for wear, the New York & Lake Erie's pair of MLW FPA cab units gets out of town with a Memorial Day weekend excursion to South Dayton.

Looking more like a Ken Patterson diorama than an actual locomotive, the world's only extant MLW-built FPA-2 (actually a FPA-2u thanks to a Canadian National rebuild) crosses Dole St. on its way t... (more)

Battling the steep grades of the former Erie, the only operating FPA's east of Ohio dig in and prepare to duck under the former grade of the original Erie main line.

MLW FPA-2u No. 6758 on the south end of the train at South Dayton. The railroad was running a couple of shuttles 5 miles up the line before heading back to Gowanda later in the afternoon, hence t... (more)

NY&LE MLW FPA-2u #6758 heads away from the camera at South Dayton with a shuttle to DM Junction on 8th September 2013.

NYLE 6758 (originally built as CN 6702) pulls a short excursion back to the station at South Dayton on the Erie Railroad's former B&SW Division. With freight traffic dwindling within recent years... (more)