Alco City, U.S.A! There's a banner in Downtown Meadville proclaiming the town as "Tool City, U.S.A.", but mention this northwest Pennsylvania town to any railfan and you'll get the same res... (more)
The WNY&PA runs 2 locals called the "Sling Shots" on Tuesday and Thursday and they run out of Meadville, PA, and Olean, NY. The locals meet at Falconer and swap trains mid afternoon. Here the crew... (more)
The ME-1 out of Meadville slowly meanders into downtown Oil City with with one of the two WNYP Alcos in full WNYP Livery and lettering on the point and engineer friend Chris Southwell at the throt... (more)
ME-1 sets foot on a journey to Oil City after having to wait for NS 11M to get in the clear at the south end of the yard.
Running long hood forward, WNYP 421 leads two gondolas across the truss bridge spanning Oil Creek. These cars will be interchanged at the scrap facility in Franklin for a string of five other gon... (more)
Having completed the work to be done around Oil City and Franklin, all that's left to do for the crew on ME-1 is to enjoy the ride back to Meadville.
WNYP train ME-1 cruises westbound through the farm fields of Northwestern Pennsylvania.