New York & Lake Erie on August 23, 1998

The Railfan Safari Team made a trip out to The New York & Lake Erie for a night photo session of the freshly painted ALCo FPA's sponsored by Tom Trencanski who writes the Railpace Magazine Empire State Express column. We got there plenty early so we could chase the regularly scheduled excursion train from South Dayton back to Gowanda. We got shots of it in South Dayton, from overhead at Dayton Tunnel, Markhams and Gowanda on the ex-Erie RR's Buffalo and Southwestern Division main.

After the sun set we all lines up for night shots lit by Tom with some of his dwindling collection of old press style flash bulbs. A great time was had by all!