EL SDP45 #3666 in Binghampton, NY June 1974. This unit went on to become CR 6697, SP 8593, and UP 2769.

Conrail was just around the corner. Who would have guessed that the EL would cease to exist in 60 days? View is EL wreck located in downtown Waverly.

Three former Lackawanna Train Masters are eastbound with hopper cars on a Sunday. The big units were often used on weekend freights as they weren't needed for commuter trains. There was no mistaki... (more)

Two of the Lehigh Valley's newer Alco RS-11 units are teamed with EMD F units on a westbound freight at Bethlehem.

Lehigh Valley GP18 304 leads a mixed consist of Alco RS-11, Alco and EMD F units on a westbound freight at Bethlehem, Pa..

EL Alco Century 424 2403 and two others are at Port Jervis. These were the only new locomotives delivered to the merged railroad in black and yellow and were built in May 1963.

An EMD GP35 sits alone at Secaucus. The unit was five months old.

Perfectly matched and consecutively numbered GP35s 2560, 2561 & 2562 pull an eastbound freight through Port Jervis in the late afternoon. EL was running its second generation power in matched sets... (more)

Erie-Lackawanna's oldest GP7 and two others sit near the old coal silos at Port Jervis. This 1950 unit has the unusual large headlight and wears the first E-L color scheme as well as the hyphenate... (more)

Erie-Lackawanna U25B 2508 and two mates sit in Port Jervis. These units were only about four months old at the time and carried the railroad name with a hyphen.

Lehigh Valley EMD SW8 switchers 250 & 251 are seen from Bethlehem tower that controls the Reading crossing and interchange.

And, a GP 9 will lead them. Almost the last years of first genration power on mainline freights and I was there. What handome line of units Geep and RS 3s.

Restored by the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society.

Where else can you find 56 year old MKT geeps, an F-unit, an F40c, Alaska GP38-2s and a whole bunch of switchers all in one place, today?