Monday, September 15, 2008
Good Morning America Whistlestop Tour
Power was provided by two specially decorated Amtrak Genesis engines.
The third "unit" in the consist was a strange beast indeed! An F-40 ph "Cabbage" had been given a set of balls! No, really, balls, over the baggage/ engine room area the roof line was lowered and a pair of domes, probably for live feed during broadcasts, had been added to the roof!
A matched set of 6 Superliner cars decorated in a real nice red, white and blue reflective scheme made up the majority of the consist.
On the tail-end a pair of BEAUTIFUL, restored Pennsylvania private cars were bringing up the markers. I ran across Main street to try and get a going away shot but after almost getting whacked by an RTS bus I found my batteries had died... what a PUTZ! I forgot to pick up new ones on my way out to shoot today. Oh well, I got some shots.
Monday, September 08, 2008
Steam on the Arcade and Attica, part II
Steam on the Arcade and Attica
Once a year on our anniversary my wife and I get to leave the kids with grandma and take a well earned overnight vacation by ourselves! Last
year we had a great time in Niagara Falls but this year money was a bit tighter so my wife tried to find something closer to home. We spent Saturday night in a cabin at the "Tumble Hill Campground" in Chohocton, N.Y.. The next morning after an awesome breakfast of sausage and blueberry pancakes made by her dad we stopped by the B&H's engine house in town to check on the Alcos. There were still 5 big 6 axle monsters there. Numbers 3670, 3664 & 3674 are all M 636's and 3660 & 77 are C-636's. B&H numbers 4&5 were there too. I would have stayed and shot some more pics but we were running late for the second half our getaway!
We headed west to Arcade to catch the first train of the day, we arrived just 10 minutes before depature time! We got our reserved tickets and boarded the second to last car in the train. In a couple of minutes, with two longs a short and a long from #18 we were on our way. More on the trip on my next post!
Thursday, September 04, 2008
425 & 418 in Henrietta!
and I was amazed to catch the LA&L crossing West Henrietta road! I have know that they still used these tracks to serve the lumber yard for a while but have never caught the move in person. As we crossed the tracks, the wrong side as far as the lighting was concerned, I saw 425's nose creeping towards the road. 425 and 418 looked and sounded GREAT as the headed south (or east) across the road. I would have chased it but we were hungry, so we went to The Cracker Barrell instead.
Falls Road Re-activated!
Wow, not even 3 months after my post about the eastern end of the Falls Road, CSX has started serving Klein Steel on Vanguard Parkway (off of Emerson). Last week I spotted 2 flat cars behind their plant and today I spotted 3 flats. I accidently deleted the pics but I hope to actually get some shots of a train moving on this line. Stay tuned railfans!!!