Nostalgia & History > B&LE and B&M -- odd couple

Here's a fallen flags odd couple - -

Bessemer 867 is in the hole at Swanville
siding in Fairview, PA. Passing is a westbound
Norfolk Southern sulphuric acid unit train,
lead by B&M 306 (with a former SOU unit trailing).

It was common for B&LE trains out of Erie to take
the siding to allow other traffic to clear. The
movement back onto home rails thru the hand throw
switch at Wallace Jct, some four miles distant,
was slow and would tie up the main.

Date was March 19, 1987.

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Is that a Southern unit trailing the BM unit?

Great catch.
JB

B&M 306 is now Canadian Pacific 4657.

Tom Coughlin
Stow, MA

Cool shot and catch!

Guilford acquired a group of high-hood GP35s from NS in the late '80s, although I had thought they were all of N&W ancestry. Perhaps the SR unit is one? Pretty sure they were all assigned to the MEC subsidiary.

Dave