Making up train

F3s wait for assignment at Port Jervis roundhouse

The inbound Scoot headed into Chicago on a clear morning in April 1971. Lead engine is a Phase I F3A. My apologies for mistakenly submitting the wrong shot for this caption earlier!

For steam, time was up, even in freight service.

Kodachrome 10 was not quite fast enough to catch her even on a sunny day.

Lackawanna F3 664 arrives Buffalo, NY alongside Nickle Plate Road Sleeper car City of Lima as the headlight cuts the smoke from the idling steam engines waiting their next assignment. Thanks to Ra... (more)

Shot shortly before Amtrak took over unit 24C looks like it has seen better days, and is in San Diegian service

DL&W livery F3s are staged on a photo freight at the entrance to Steamtown

Former CNJ F3s #56 and #57, now DLW 664 and 663 bask in the sun during Steamtown's Labor Day Weekend Railfest.

This was painted in a classic scheme designed to take advantage of the contours of the magnificent machine.

"Chicken wire" Fs were relatively rare to begin with and unheard of this late but here's one still in service.

Westbound Southern Rwy train #221 at Greensboro, NC in May 1970