No drone photography here, this photo was taken by hiking along the right of way of the long-abandoned Erie Dunkirk Branch that passed over the Buffalo & South Western Division. It required about an 850ft hike through waist-deep snow, but the end result was worth it. With plenty of snow for the occasion, New York & Lake Erie's beautiful pair of MLW cab units, FPA-4 6764 and FPA-2u 6758, are returning to Gowanda from Dayton with the second of three holiday trains they were running on that day.
New York state has the largest number of ALCO diesel locomotives working in everyday service. Here are some of them. Soon I hope to chronicle all of them.
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive
