Nostalgia & History > Switcher Super Sunday

First three photos are taken on Erie Lackawanna at Owego NY in the late '60s:
Erie 386 is a Baldwin DS44-750 built in 1949.
EL 409 is an NW2 built for Erie in 1948 (note the eb LV Sayre-Binghamton turn is just departing in the distance)
Freshly painted EL 370 is an SW8 built for DL&W in 1953. 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/07/16 04:25 by JPB.

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Photo 4: Lehigh Valley 141, shown switching at Sayre, PA, is a Baldwin VO-1000 built in 1944.
Photo 5: NYO&W 116 is an NW2 built for NYO&W in 1948. This switcher, shown at NYS&W engine house Binghamton in 2007, went to NYC, PC, and Conrail before being repainted in its original NYO&W colors. NYS&W's Walter Rich once owned 116 and his estate donated the unit to the Delaware and Ulster RR at Arkville, NY, where it is awaiting repair of a radiator leak and re-painting. 
Photo 6: Delaware Otsego Alco 0-6-0 #2, shown at Cooperstown in 1972, was built in 1942 as US Army 4038, dispositioned to Virginia Blue Ridge Railway in 1958 as their #8, and sold to DO in 1965 for excursion service on ex-ex-NYC at Oneonta, NY. In 2009, #2 was sold to a private owner in Eckhart Mines, MD, who intends to retore the locomotive to operation.
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/07/16 05:02 by JPB.

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