The journey of C&O 8272 has been a long and winding road – in more ways than one! From the quiet arrival to the shops in Huntington, WV, to its arrival at Downing Avenue Yard in Erie. Delays in departure, a brief delay due to a lightning struck signal near Attica Junction, Ohio, a mysterious […]
Nickel Plate 765 Returns Through North East
Nickel Plate 765 rolled through North East, PA again, this time heading west after running passenger excursions in New York. It’s hard to know when these steam engines will be going by, we usually get very short notice, but for those who were lucky enough to be in North East in the afternoon, this is […]
Nickel Plate 765 Rolls by North East
It isn’t often we get to see the sight of a fully restored steam engine at speed heading up a long line of railcars, but that’s exactly what happened this week as Nickel Plate Road #765 passed by the Lake Shore Railway Museum. It was on its way to Buffalo, New York for a series […]
North East Appears in Classic Trains Magazine Nickel Plate Steam Feature
Classic Trains magazine is just out with their Summer 2015 issue and there is an excellent article on the Nickel Plate Road, with lots of photos of the Berkshire 2-8-4s along Lake Erie taken in March of 1957. The photos show Dunkirk and Pomfret, New York, Conneaut, Ohio and several photos taken in North East, […]