u18b404: SD40-2 6304 leads a Wixom bound Z127 Lakes States Railway train from Flint, MI.
u18b404: A Lake States Railway freight passes the Holly depot as it heads from Flint, MI to Wixom, MI.
u18b404: Pinky On The Ground With Horses. The Heber Valley's excursion train for the NRHS national convention went on the ground only a few 100 feet after leaving the station. It was led by former UP and Great Western Railway GP9 #296.
u18b404: OL-2 heads North on the Buffalo Line to retrieve a car from storage at North Olean.
u18b404: OL-2 digs a single covered hopper out from amidst a plethora of boxcars being stored in the siding at North Olean. M636's #685 and #643 do the honors and sandwich the hopper between the 2 beasts.
u18b404: OL-2 takes a pair of M636's to retreive a stored covered hopper from the siding at North Olean. The former PRR roundhouse, now part of Dresser Rand, can be seen in the background as the power rounds the North West Connector to head North.
u18b404: OL-3 drifts downgrade toward Driftwood with 21 empty hoppers for the NS interchange.
u18b404: The End Is Near! Everybody showed up on a perfect Saturday to watch the crew of OL-3 put on a smoke show as its quartet of big 6 axle MLW's pass under the old Position Light signals at "North Eldred".
u18b404: Above the crowd! OL-2 heads South under the old PRR position light signals while a multitude of railfans take their images just out of view from below.
u18b404: OL-2 heads into Port Allegany with a good size train of empty hoppers and sand cars from Turtle point. The job also head one car to spot at a local industry.
u18b404: The Leaning Signal of West Pergo!
u18b404: Push It. Push it Good. Cumberland Mine SD38-2 CMYX #1 pushes on the rear end of a Eastbound loaded coal train while #22 does the honors on the head end. The Cumberlan Mine Railroad is a unique operation that does not connect with any other rail line.
u18b404: An Eastbound loaded Cumberland Mine train is led by SD38-2 #22 at Mapletown, PA. The Cumberland Mine Railroad does not connect with any other railroad and is completely captive, shuttling coal 15 miles from Kirby to Alicia, PA.
u18b404: This could be the last time. Two all big six axle MLW consists meet on the Buffalo Line, as OL-1 passes OL-2 at Emporium.
u18b404: OL-1's big MLW's put on a smoke show as they head North across the Sinnemahoning Creek with 20 loads of stone.
u18b404: Everything Must Change. OL-1 pulls passed South Driftwood after shoving its empty stone cars into the siding. The old position light signals have been replaced by a "Darth Vadar" slide protector and soon the big six axle MLW's will be replaced by GE's.
u18b404: OL-2 returns to Olean with its pair of M636's bracketing a single covered hopper that was retrieved from storage on the siding at North Olean.
u18b404: RS1's power departs Silver Springs headed North back to Rochester
u18b404: OL-2 is led by a matching pair of Ex-Cartier M636's as it takes a handful of cars to the BP interchange in Salamanca.
u18b404: "Halfway Between" Chicago and New York ME-1 rolls 130 empty Detroit Edison coal hoppers East for storage near Salamanca.
u18b404: The "Lazareth Twins" (M636 638 & 637) lead ME-1 as it storms its way East out of Meadville with 130 emtpy Detroit Edison coal hoppers.
u18b404: OL-3 has a trio of M636's and a C630m as it rolls empty stone hoppers into Port Allegany, PA.
u18b404: GK2 has a pair of consecutively numbered B23-7s in charge as it heads South along Seneca Lake on the old Lehigh Valley.
u18b404: "Central on the Valley". GK2 heads South out of Geneva for Kendaia on the old Lehigh Valley.
u18b404: "Searching in the wrong direction". An old Lehigh Valley signal stares off into no where as GK2 passes by it Southbound.
u18b404: Finger Lakes Railway GS-2 has just departed Geneva, NY on its Eastward trek to Solvay.
u18b404: HG2 passes the L23 milepost as it heads South on Norfolk Southern rails along the West side of Seneca Lake.
u18b404: HG2 is back on home rails as it passes under the Norfolk Southern line at Himrod Junction.
u18b404: Finger Lakes Railway GS-2 heads back West out of Solvay, NY with a pair of GMTX SD38-2's in charge.
u18b404: GW1 brings loads of salt North passed the depot in Leicester, as it returns to Brooks Yard in Rochester.