You have entered a different world. Smoke from the Canadian Wildfires blankets Hornell as NS 903 departs Alstom which Acela Aveila Liberty set 7 to the NEC

After conducting extensive testing at the TTCI facility in Pueblo, the first Amtrak Avelia Liberty train set has arrived back at the Alstom Plant in Hornell, New York. After bringing the train dow... (more)

After 14 months of testing in Pueblo, Colorado, the first Amtrak "Avelia Liberty" trainset is at the end of its journey as it pulls into the Alstom facility in Hornell.

While Norfolk Southern Train 205 9265 (D9-44CW) passes the Alstom Facility in Hornell, New York on Sunday, February 16, 2020, Amtrak’s new Avelia Liberty/Acela 21 sits in the background. On Mond... (more)

309 rolls through Hornell on a beautiful summer afternoon on the Southern Tier.

A spartan cab SD70 and an ex CSX Dash 8 (now part of the GE Lease Fleet) lead NS manifest freight 309 as it passes the station in Hornell on the Southern Tier Line.

Locomotives:
NS 2563... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Lehigh Valley Railroad Heritage Unit leads W10 for the first time (per the local fans) out of Buffalo on the Southern Tier Line. Locomotives: NS 8104 (LV) and NS 4072

With a single C424m leading, the Delaware & Hudson “salt train” rolls west from Hornell, New York. The trailing two ... (more)

After relocating two of its three C424m’s to the rear of the train, the remaining unit leads the westbound Delaware & Hu... (more)

The westbound Delaware & Hudson salt train, carrying empty covered hoppers for the Genesee & Wyoming, has arrived at Hornell, New York with three recently-rebuilt C424m’s leading. Because of a r... (more)

RRPX 41 and 43 lead Western New York and Pennsylvania Hornell Turn nearing Hornell

In 1980, there was no internet, and news of a new locomotive or paint scheme came via magazines a couple of months after the fact, the “railfan grapevine”, or happenstance discovery. While on ... (more)

RRPX 41 and 43 lead Western New York and Pennsylvania Hornell Turn nearing Hornell

In the very late 1970's and into the early 1980's GE was rebuilding old locomotives at the old Erie Hornell shops. A bunch of old C&O U25-B's were bought by the National de Mexico Railway. A West... (more)