On New Years Eve a Westbound tackles Richmondville Hill. No doubt the crew wants to get home in time for the Holiday.
Piedmont & Northern C420 #2000 at Spartanburg, SC in 1969.
A&M's ALCOs maneuver in tight space. Their yard in Springfield is crammed between two sets of commercial buildings.
A sucker hole of sun catches four C420's cackling South, through a s-curve, lined with wildflowers in bloom. Must admit, my first time seeing ALCO's in mainline action, was really awesome!
Afternoon thunderstorms begin to pop, while the Monett Turn returns to Springdale with four C420's and 28 cars in tow.
We arrived at Bevier Street yard and were informed that the Belden Hill tunnel was closed due to some sort of problem. A train was stopped at Nineveh, so off we went to find this fantastic lashup ... (more)
Alco style! The quartet of C420's get back on the move at Butterfield, where they'll soon stop to setout a lone hopper at a feed.
A Westbound D&H freight appears to be racing a station wagon out of town.
Springtime on the A&M: With Ozark wildflowers in full bloom, bent nosed A&M #44 and 4 of her sisters head their train south at trackspeed.
GB&W 323,321,322 work the sand load out at Taylor on a mainly cloudy morning. The 323 was probably the GB&W's most reliable unit and was popular with the operating and mechanical crews.
A Westbound stack train is rolling across the flats at Erwins and is about to enter the Canisteo River Valley.
Years before the new station at the lowell crossing in C.I.
A Northbound freight on the Penn Division with a red ex LV C-420 leading.
