ALCO Safari Day 4, WNYP: In the morning, two of WNYP's veteran ALCO's drag a heavy cut of cars out of the yard in Meadville, exhibiting the classic ALCO turbo lag. Don't let the smoke fool you, the 251 is actually a pretty fuel efficient design. The plan this day, originally, was to run out the branch to Oil City, PA, but there proved to be far too much yard/local work to accomplish first, Oil City would have to wait.
New York state has the largest number of ALCO diesel locomotives working in everyday service. Here are some of them. Soon I hope to chronicle all of them.
