ALCO Safari Day 3, WNYP: Upon arriving in Meadville, I scoped out the WNYP yard and was happy to find C430 #432 and C424 #428 quietly waiting in the yard for their Monday morning assignment... (more)

Notch It Up. On August 19, 2019, the Western New York and Pennsylvania's OL-3 (WNYP 431 leading, ex-ME 17, exx-CR 2053, née-NYC 2053 Alco C430, 11/1967) made an afternoon trip to Farmers ... (more)

A trio of WNYP Alco's head back towards Olean after running a Driftwood Turn, smoking it up as they pass through the floodwall along the Allegheny River in Eldred, Pennsylvania. While this is sect... (more)

A pair of WNYP M636's and C430's smoke it up as they lead a train of storage coal cars east through Wrightsville, Pennsylvania as they pass along the Swamp Run marshes.

Southbound trip to Driftwood.

Passing under the now removed bridge near the summit with gravel cars in tow.

A trio of MLW sixes lead the WNYP's Driftwood Turn as it heads south across the PRR truss bridge over Sinnemahoning Creek in Cameron, Pennsylvania with a train of empty stone hoppers in tow.

After the ME-1 and OL-3 crews met in Falconer, New York and swapped trains, the OL-3 crew is back on the move with 128 coal hoppers in tow bound for storage in Salamanca. In order to cross over Ca... (more)

The WNYP storage train of 127 coal hoppers passes a Farmall tractor at the intersection of Coldspring Road and Corbett Hill Road just West of Steamburg, NY on May 2, 2020. Never thought I would ha... (more)

A quartet of Western New York & Pennsylvania Alco's pass through Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania with a train of storage coal hoppers in tow. The train is passing by the former Northwestern Pennsy... (more)

The WNYP ME-1 crew is putting together their train for a special move of coal cars for storage on the morning of May 2, 2020 in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The train of 128 DEEX coal cars was interch... (more)

A Friday evening in Olean finds all the Western New York & Pennsylvania crews tied up for the day with power parked outside the engine house. The shortline now uses a rather unique assortment of p... (more)

Working upgrade through Columbus, Pennsylvania, train ME-1 is closing in on the New York state line on former Erie Lackawanna trackage.

A trio of Western New York & Pennsylvania's six axle Alco's slowly makes their way through Port Allegheny, Pennsylvania on a 10 MPH speed restriction with a train of empty stone hoppers in tow. Th... (more)