a beautiful day in Steamtown

A pair of Alcos spend a beautiful Fourth of July weekend in Scranton.

The MA&N's Utica crew returns to the Mohawk Valley after delivering a rare boxcar to Lyons Falls. The covered hoppers behind the locomotive are from Boonville. Service to the northern end of thi... (more)

Business on the Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern centers around the Mohawk Valley these days. Here, the crew aboard this classic Alco (which, by the way, is once again carrying its original Erie-La... (more)

It is nice to see an Alco moving at full track speed through Upstate New York. Here, MA&N 2456 passes the Holland Patent station, immaculately restored to be used by the Adirondack Scenic Railroad... (more)

The MA&N crew for the day pauses for lunch before leaving Boonville with one car for Utica. The feed mill in Boonville, barely visible behind the crossing, has been a rail customer for more than ... (more)

After delivering some cars to Slack Chemical, MHWA 2454 backs a cut of empty tank cars down Canal Street headed towards the depot.

GVT's MA&N local has Finished switching out the Utica Yard and get's ready to couple onto a cut of cars to deliver to a customer in Rome.

MHWA 642 was a former BC Rail unit before coming to the MA&N. It was also used in the made for TV movie, "Atomic Train", where it was repainted for the fictional WestRail, which has shown through ... (more)

MHWA 642 and 2454 along with a CSX crew taxi wait by the old depot for CSX X91918 to arrive so they can get to work pulling cars out of storage.

MHWA 642 and 2454 back towards the depot where the crew will grab some CSX power and head back through town to pick up some TTX centerbeams that are coming out of storage.

MHWA 2454 and 642, both former BC Rail, as if the paint wasn't a dead giveaway, back across the Black River on their way back to the depot. MA&N crews were out getting some TTX centerbeams ready t... (more)

It is always good to see a former EL unit running on former EL trackage. It is even better when that unit is an ALCO. MHWA 2453 was built as EL 2453 and was sold to BC Rail before returning to t... (more)

MHWA 2454 pulls a long cut of cars out of storage on the Newton Falls branch.