WNYP 630 taking a ballast train back to Falconer from Hornell, NY in the fall of 2005.

MEHN passes a farm as they near the town of Andover.

Sometimes on vacation, you get a shot that justifies the lack of sleep and hours of driving. My Dad & I have a ritual of deciding the "Shot of the Trip"... but we didn't even have to ask on this ... (more)

With 37 loads, Saturday's Driftwood Turn required some extra power to climb Keating Summit! It warms my heart to see a quad of Six-Motor ALCO's bracketing a lease unit that will soon be returned.

The Driftwood Turn has dropped his inbound cars in the siding at South Driftwood and is heading up the main to North Driftwood to pick up his outbound train to take back to Olean.

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