While passing through Cresco today, I saw this 5 engine train stopped. I didn't know the D&L still functioned today and I never saw the paint job on the other four engines. Nice surprise.
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GHD,
Those are Delaware-Lackawanna RR engines. They are a division of Genesee Valley Transportation here is their website:
The Delaware-Lackawanna RR is all Alco power, their engines can usually be found in the rail yard in Scranton between the Steamtown National Historic Park and the mall. Their engines are sometimes used to pull Steamtown excursions.
JohnB
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This railroad is the "DL" not the "D&L."
As JohnB said in his post, this is the Delaware Lackawanna Railroad, a very successful and busy freight hauler with an all-Alco diesel roster.
This is the line that the Steamtown National Historic Site operates on out of Scranton, PA. In 2015 I had the honor of running the 765 on this line.
Here she is between windowframes of East Stroudsburg Tower, open for us
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GHD, What JohnB and Rich Melvin have posted here is true. I feel you may be confusing the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad with the present-day Delaware Lackawanna ( a component of Genesee Valley Transportation, as noted above).
The Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad has not existed since 1960, when it was merged with the Erie Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, which became part of Conrail in 1976.
The locomotive number 2461 should be called a heritage unit, as it wears the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western "colors" in the Erie Lackawanna "scheme". Erie Lackawanna had a darker grey body and a more purplish maroon stripe. Also the diamond nose herald says DL rather than the proper EL of an Erie Lackawanna scheme. An original Delaware Lackawanna & Western unit would have had a red and yellow rectangular nose herald which read "Lackawanna Railroad".
The four trailing locomotives are the proper Genesee Valley Transportation fleet color scheme.
There are many other shortline/regional railroads with variations of the grey-maroon-yellow scheme. That suits me for one, as I began my railroad career on the Erie Lackawanna Railroad in 1973. In my opinion this was one of the sharpest paint schemes ever.
To borrow a phrase from elsewhere on the net, is that clear as mud? Don
Thanks for the info folks. After I posted this, I googled the line and got enlightened. Like many things today, it's hard to tell the players without a program. I think I saw CP engines on this track in years past and now I guess I know why. At my age, I still learn something everyday. It was a nice surprise!
