Return to steam. Arcade & Attica 2-8-0 18 sits ready to go at the A&A shops during her first weekend back in steam. Taken with permission.

ARA 18 may be the star of the day after 7 years in the shops, but she is still a small part of the western New York landscape.

ARA 18 pulls her first excursion train since being restored to operation across the Cattaraugus Creek just a few hundred yards north of the Arcade station.

Return to steam. With less fanfare than other steam escapades throughout the country this weekend, Arcade & Attica 2-8-0 18 returned to active service on Memorial Day weekend after a seven... (more)

I stumbled across AA 112 running from Arcade to the large feed mill at North Java with 2 cars for them.

Arcade & Attica RR 44 tonner #112 prepares to depart the station at Curriers, NY with a southbound tourist train on October 6, 2007.

Arcade & Attica RR 44 tonner #112 hauls a southbound tourist train over the Cattaraugus Creek trestle at Arcade, NY on October 6, 2007.

A youngster excitedly lines up pennies for No. 112 to stomp when she runs around her train. No. 112 eyes up the situation, but doesn't have much to say.

Having survived another day of cannon fire, children with sticky fingers, the indignity of being forced to squish pennies, and photographers like me, No. 112 makes a triumphant return to Arcade an... (more)

With the hot dog supply depleted, the militia boards the train in preparation for departure.

The tour train sustains heavy fire in a pasture south of Curriers.

Arcade & Attica's tourist train passes a couple fishing in a creek in downtown Arcade.

Its 8:04 am and 13 degrees below zero at Arcade and Attica's interchange with Norfolk Southern's Buffalo Line. The Crew have their train put together and ready to make the 15 mile trip to Reisdor... (more)