In October 1973, British Columbia Railway M420 645 emerged from the Montreal Locomotive Works plant in Montreal, Québec, one of eight to be built for the western Canada railway. The M420s were a... (more)

”Combining the Worst Features of Rail and Bus”

In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, British Rail and British Leyland undertook a program to develop a new railbus. One proto... (more)

In the mid 1980’s the colors of the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad came to the rails in the Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna Valley for the first time in over a quarter-century. The Lackawanna ... (more)

Delaware Lackawanna C636 3642 leads train PO-74 out of Nay Aug Tunnel in Scranton on its way to Mountain Pocono and Cresco. The crew put on quite a show climbing the mountain with a heavy train in... (more)

Twas ever thus!!

Delaware Lackawanna PO74 departs Scranton behind a pair of RS3 locomotives.

Delaware Lackawanna PO-75 is seen emerging from Nay Aug Tunnel. The train is bound for Scranton with empties from Cresco and Pocono Summit.

The Delaware Lackawanna is seen emerging from Nay Aug Tunnel just outside Scranton. The train is bound for Pocono Summit with a large cut of loaded grain cars. The train has four locomotes on the ... (more)

The Delaware Lackawanna crew is seen departing Scranton with a large grain train bound for Pocono Summit on a rainy Saturday morning.

On a warm afternoon at Bridge 60, two warriors of the DL roster rest after an early day of yard shuffling in the morning.

On a warm clear morning at Bridge 60, the BR-1 crew uses the quartet of six axles; DL 3642(the only surviving running Alco C636 in 2020) along with MLWs 3643, 3007 & 3000 to assemble their train t... (more)

663 reverses slowly out of Steamtown with a "wine tasting special" and passes the resident Big Boy.

Investing in History. The Genesee Valley Transportation Co., Inc. Delaware-Lackawanna recently received this Alco HH660 that was built in 1940 Schenectady, NY for the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Wes... (more)

One of the first stops in Pennsylvania was Scranton to see Alcos running. I was very surprised to see TWO DL RS3's in the BR-1 lineup for the day! After picking up salt cars, BR-1 proceeded back... (more)

Early bird gets the...smoke. First belch of the morning as the DL “BR-1” crew prepares to head to Ridge Row out of Bridge 60 on a muggy Friday morning.