A study of a locomotive model: Local Train OL1 pulls up next to the power off last night's HNME freight. The C630 & C430 were ALCO's answer to the SD40/GP40 and U30C/U30B. WNY&P numbers their u... (more)
The Driftwood Turn crests Keating Summit on a cool Saturday Morning.
WNY&P train MEHN cruises beneath the Route 19 overpass in Belvidere. While I was taking this shot, a state trooper was running my info (he was kind enough to allow me to shoot the train while he d... (more)
With a handful of cars out of North Driftwood, the boys on DFT-14 belch some Alco dust along the Sinnemahoning Creek deep in the mountains.
Getting going again after a lengthly setoff/pickup at Cuba Cheese.
The ME-2 crew calls it a day, and ties down 4264 at the hot start to rest for the night. Note the former Erie shops on the horizon at the right edge of the photo.
After losing orders to work "The Branch" and rescue the outlawed ME-1 from 1/30 in Oil City, the ME-2 gets new orders to build tomorrow's ME-1 train instead.
Outlawed since colliding with an intoxicated patron of a local establishment who thought he could beat the 5 MPH train on 1/30/2009. The ME-1 was making a protected shove move back to the rest of... (more)
The ME-2 heads back to the main after switching out Universal Well in Meadville, PA.
WNYP 432 heads south after picking up cars at the R&S Brooks Ave yard
Entering Oil City, and onto the Rouseville Industrial Track at the confluence of Oil Creek and the Allegheny River. I opted to tighten in a little so as to not capture the Downtown Beautification ... (more)
Twin Bridges. The other bridge carries street traffic over Sugar Creek within spitting distance of this former Erie RR bridge.
The ME-2 departs BK Junction, enroute to its first stop on the Oil City Branch.
5 ALCOs are resting on one of the engine tracks in Olean today, including two big six axle units.