"Iron Pride"! That's a machine to be proud of, for sure! Lots of brass to polish, and the honor of being in the employ of the transportation high-tech of its time. No wonder they stand proud! Great photo.
Lehigh & New England Class F-1 Baldwin 2-10-0 #404 at Pen Argyl, PA, 09/07/1946. Built 1931, scrapped 1950. Note the booster on the trailing tender truck and the stack above. Photo by Donald W. Furler. The L&NE was an anthracite and cement hauler with its mainline routed through eastern PA, western NJ and on to Maybrook, NY, with trackage rights on the NYS&W and Erie en-route. It shut in 1961.
At first glance, that looks like a well-detailed model scene... I still can't shake that impression. Cool spark arrestors.
Super cool! Looks like they grafted the cab from an FM lightweight loco on an RDC. And what better colors than that of the New Haven? Now if they had preserved the "Black Beetle" and its pod of twin turbojets off of a B-36 bomber (looks like a Dougie Franklin soup-up job...).
The three-car set was on display in conjunction with Canaan (CT) Railroad Days this past weekend. It will be on display this coming weekend at the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum in Lenox MA. https://www.berkshiretrains.org/40th-anniversary-celebration
Only 19 years old when scrapped. I wonder, what the reason was. Duh! I'm sure it was the phasing out of steam. Doug
L&NE seems to have dieselized early, everything by 1949. At first glance, all Alco: S-2s, RS-2s, and FA/FB1s, except for a single Whitcomb 65-ton unit. It must have been fun listening to the L&NE and their Alco symphony!
The L&NE's Alcos were in good shape when the road ended operations. The L&N bought five of their S-2s, four RS-2s and all ten FA-1s/FB-1s. [Photo by Roger Lalonde]
Roanoke, Virginia in 1924. The twin buildings at the center were the general offices of the Norfolk and Western Railway. The Hotel Roanoke is on the right. The platforms for the passenger depot extend into the image below the hotel. Express and postal platforms are on the left.
Found this morning at CMC Steel at Cayce, SC, a very tired CANX 1395, a former CN SW-1200SW. From the looks of the exhaust stack, it's been repowered.
Also found this morning in the NS yard at Columbia was former NS 37, now owned by the Everett Railroad in Hollidaysburg, PA and on its way to Atom Rail in Winnsboro, SC for rebuilding. Everett operates freight service and also tourist and special event passenger trains.
