(top) On October 26, 2006, I spied this NYS&W SD 40-2T on a freight sitting in Rochester. The train appeared to have "outlawed" and was waiting for a re-crew.

(middle) A few hours later the sun had come out and she was still there so I shot from the "sunny side" of the tracks.

(bottom) About 6 or 7 cars into the train was this Penn Central survivor. This covered hopper is still in the PC Jade Green applied by the Penn Central so many years ago.

(top) This is Amtrak's train number 48 The Lake Shore Limited heading east through Rochester, NY. The time was about 20 minutes to 10 am so I think it may have been a bit late.

(middle) The two Genesis locomotives are in the classic back-to-back mode on the head end today. Two engines are needed on the Lake Shore as the train is normaly 2 to 3 times the size of average Empire Corridor trains.

(bottom) On both the east and west bound Lake Shore, numbers 48 and 49 respectively, dinning car service is available in addition to Amcafe service. The dinning cars are mostly older cars of New York Central heritage. The experience of eating in a real dinning car is something every traveller should do at least once!

(top) CSX 4408 switches out some cars in Rochester yard as 6111 idles away the evening on 4 Main on October 18, 2006.

(middle) Most if the time the jobs out of Rochester use a pair of locomotives. Sometimes they operate in pairs for the extra power or sometimes they'll run with a unit on each end to facilitate servicing industries with spurs facing the opposite direction of the train.

(bottom) All tucked in for the night, all the local power is in the "Old Hole" awaiting another job.

(top) In the 1970's Penn Central ran passenger service in the New York Metropolitan area before the advent of Metro North. Here we see HO scale models of the former New Haven FL-9's pulling a commuter train north bound somewhere along the Harlem Line.

(bottom) The Penn Central was created out of a merger of two former rivals, the New York Central and the Pennsylvania railroads. In this shot we see a PC switcher and caboose returning light to the yard after running a local on the Rochester and Irondequoit Terminal Railroad.