On June 25th, 2022 - the New York and Lake Erie hosted a private photo charter involving some rare-mileage and its fleet of active locomotives. Lined up nicely next to the Gowanda depot, the venerable MLW FPA's of CN heritage are painted in a unique but nice looking blue and yellow with patterns inspired by the Erie Railroad. Next to them, the recently restored ALCO S-1 "Erie 308" basks with its new paint job in the sun.
From a hint of "Bee" (NKP 765), colorful "Bees" (KCS), "Bees" w/ "attitude", to "Bees" that "sting" your eyes, in their own way they have "Bee" on display! Equipment that "Buzzes" with Yellow & Black colors! ("Bees" can still "Bee" entering this "hive"!)
New York state has the largest number of ALCO diesel locomotives working in everyday service. Here are some of them. Soon I hope to chronicle all of them.