Alco PA, EMD F3B and an Alco RS3 await servicing.
The westbound Lake Cities makes its station stop, gets serviced and recrewed.
The end is near! In four days the Erie-Lackawanna will join other northeastern railroads in being merged into government entity Conrail.
EL 3615 East moves out on the Southern tier line in 1970. For more of John's classic shots from N.Y. see the Sept. '06 Railfan & Railroad.
Ex-Erie R.R.
The slug is E-L B-65. It was homemade from a Baldwin at Hornell, N.Y. in 1965. Another one of those "all gone" scenes.
Photo doesn't really do it justice-those six-wheel trucks are big!
Immaculately restored EL SD45 3607 is on display at the NTM
Pure beauty. Note the bug deflector.
Four EL E8 head west out of the Marion yard. The second unit was #810 - one of the two E8 demonstrator units delivered in 1951.
Working the west side of the EL yard
Trio of SD45s awaits next assignment
Freight bound for Scranton rounds curve east of Dover station
