A Susquehanna Northern Division local, with six cars in tow, rolls through Whitney Point, New York.

ALCO Safari Day 5, LA&L: Having made good time, the LA&L road train crosses the Genesee River, and approaches Genesee Jct. with its CSX interchange traffic. After doing a little switching t... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 5, LA&L: After having picked up empties from Barilla in Avon, the road train continues towards Rochester. ALCO C430 #433 started life as New York Central 2056 in 11/1967.

ALCO Safari Day 5, LA&L: Moving along at a good clip now, the LA&L road train sprints over Pole Bridge Rd. LA&L's ROW is well maintained, and track speed is 25 MPH.

ALCO Safari Day 5, LA&L: After gathering a handful of cars from the Lakeville yard, the LA&L road job comes up the grade, and around the curve at Conesus Lake Jct. heading for Rochester. Th... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 4, WNYP: In the morning, two of WNYP's veteran ALCO's drag a heavy cut of cars out of the yard in Meadville, exhibiting the classic ALCO turbo lag. Don't let the smoke fool ... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 4, WNYP: After talking with the crew, and determining they would not be running to Oil City, I decided to get a parting shot of 432 next to the yard office, and head for Ole... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 4, WNYP: In the morning, two of WNYP's veteran ALCO's drag a heavy cut of cars out of the yard in Meadville, exhibiting the classic ALCO turbo lag. Don't let the smoke fool... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 4, WNYP: After servicing a customer across French creek, the Monday WNYP crew is seen thru the French Creek bridge heading back across Mercer St. Although WNYP now owns big ... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 3, WNYP: Upon arriving in Meadville, I scoped out the WNYP yard and was happy to find C430 #432 and C424 #428 quietly waiting in the yard for their Monday morning assignment... (more)

Still displaying the “mating worms” Penn Central logo, a partially-patched Conrail C430 soaks up the morning sun at Mingo Junction, Ohio.

Eastbound Sea-Land stack train NTV-4 passes the site of the Erie yard in Deposit, New York. The Agway building has been a landmark for decades.

Eastbound Susquehanna stack train NTV-4 is pulled onto the NYS&W Northern Division in Binghamton, New York. Conrail would not permit Susquehanna crew changes on the Southern Tier main line, so NYS... (more)

Notch It Up. On August 19, 2019, the Western New York and Pennsylvania's OL-3 (WNYP 431 leading, ex-ME 17, exx-CR 2053, née-NYC 2053 Alco C430, 11/1967) made an afternoon trip to Farmers ... (more)

A duo of Livonia, Avon and Lakeville ALCos haul a long southbound train as they approach East River Road on a March evening.