The GP35 That Refused to Change This Erie-Lackawanna GP35 was stripped of its EL identity by Conrail, but a reversal of fortune compelled the forces at the shop where it was being ... (more)
An Erie-Lackawanna GP35 idles on one of the roundhouse leads in Bangor, Pennsylvania. At one time there had been a 60-foot turntable to serve the four-stall roundhouse, but by this time it had bee... (more)
It's the fifth day of Conrail’s existence, but things have not yet changed as a train makes a delivery to the Bangor & Portland Division yard in Bangor, Pennsylvania. One of the trainmen rides t... (more)
An Erie Lackawanna train makes a delivery to the Bangor & Portland Division yard in Bangor, Pennsylvania. The power is a U25B/GP7/GP35 combination that I believe has come from Scranton. The U25B l... (more)
Erie Lackawanna C425 2459 is in the engine terminal at Port Jervis, New York. The C425’s were sold to the British Columbia Railway before the EL became part of Conrail.
A January afternoon finds an Erie Lackawanna GP7 on the roundhouse lead at Bangor, Pennsylvania. Built in 1952 as Erie 1404, the EMD road switcher has about five years of service left.
Erie Lackawanna F7(A) No. 7151, former Bessemer & Lake Erie No 725, sits on display on the former EL right of way in Honesdale, PA. This unit was built by EMD in 1953. Interestingly, the unit wa... (more)
"The Floating EL Hack at Pier 66"
A former Erie Lackawanna Railroad caboose (also known to some as a "hack") sits on display at the Frying Pan; a former railroad float barge-tu... (more)
A couple of EL GP35 locomotives idle at the Huntington, IN yard office. John E. Troxler collection, Photographer unknown. Original Ektachrome slide.
My father probably never imagined when he took this picture at the Alco plant in Schenectady, NY that freshly built Erie Lackawanna C425s 2461 and 2455 would still exist 56 years later. EL 2461 i... (more)
A Gladstone Branch commuter train crosses the Passaic River on a trestle at Millington, New Jersey.
EL SD45 3607 sits on display at NMOT in Kirkwood.
On a damp afternoon, Erie Lackawanna RS3 931 pokes its nose out of the Hoboken trainshed as it awaits its rush hour run to the suburbs.