After picking up passengers, CN 3254 and the AAPRCO special leave the Lackawanna Station Hotel behind as they depart Scranton; their destination: the Delaware Water Gap.
CN 2-8-2 3254 drifts downgrade past the fomer DL&W Cresco station, which is being refurbished. Workers were painting the building white, though I don't know if that will be a final color or just p... (more)
Out of 25 'Big Boys' built for the Union Pacific in 1941, only 8 remain, including UP 4012 at Steamtown. The locomotive weighs 1,200,000 lbs. and still has a max. speed of 80 mph.