After finishing up switching cars at Con Can and Marisol, ME-1 behind ex-Mass Central C-425 #427 parallels PA Route 8 on its way to Franklin. From there it will follow French Creek on ex-Erie tra... (more)

The ME-1 out of Meadville slowly meanders into downtown Oil City with with one of the two WNYP Alcos in full WNYP Livery and lettering on the point and engineer friend Chris Southwell at the throt... (more)

Running long hood forward, WNYP 421 leads two gondolas across the truss bridge spanning Oil Creek. These cars will be interchanged at the scrap facility in Franklin for a string of five other gon... (more)

Arrive Alive!!! That is the hopes of the children on this bus. If crossing gates had any strength, this short bus would be even shorter. Note the price of gas too as the ME-1 reverses of... (more)

After setting in 5 loads at Continental Can, the ME-1 comes back across the Wye Bridge at the former Wye Tower site. The bridge won't see another train for a month or so. The ME-1 is now enroute t... (more)

Crossing Oil Creek, the ME-1 heads toward McClintock Yard in Rouseville to pick up a few brine empties and run around their train.

ME-1 Conductor, Kevin C. gives fellow RP contributor Terry Kerr and myself a wave as he protects the shove across the i... (more)

421 pulls the 4 empties from Continental Can under an old Pennsy Signal bridge that once guarded the entrance to the Valley Yard (now just a single track main) from points south on the Valley Line... (more)

421 reverses light down the South Side Industrial to retrieve the 4 empties from Continental Can. The trackage there does not have the room to do the switching with the 5 D/O loads and 4 P/U empt... (more)

Running long-hood-forward, #421 switches some tank cars.

Outlawed since colliding with an intoxicated patron of a local establishment who thought he could beat the 5 MPH train on 1/30/2009. The ME-1 was making a protected shove move back to the rest of... (more)

Entering Oil City, and onto the Rouseville Industrial Track at the confluence of Oil Creek and the Allegheny River. I opted to tighten in a little so as to not capture the Downtown Beautification ... (more)

WNYP rolls right on by McDonald's Drive Thru, and doesn't even stop for a Big Mac. The building in the trees on the left was to originally be the southern terminus for the OC&T's passenger excursi... (more)