September 2024 - This and That

Brian Smith hiked about 30 minutes into the bush to take this photo of two steam engines found in Maine near the border with New Brunswick. Brian mentioned if you have a boat you can get to this location better. 

A bit of a mix of photos for you to view including what we saw last week at Rochester...George Dutka  

Terry Nixon took this photo back in August 2024 of a CP train crossing Frank Lane. On the train was another of those ex-B&M covered hoppers.

A view from the 1960's or 1970's of the engine I mentioned a week ago in Springbank park. Bruce Douglas passed this one along.

Rochester and Southern seen from the airport entrance. It appears they have a neat looking yard tower, unfortunately this is the closest we could get.

Looking down from the crossing we could see the local switcher working in front of the tower. There is more of the yard south of the tower that is visible from the Airport cellular use parking log.

The Fairport viewing platform and caboose in late afternoon. Railfanning here for lighting is better later in the day.

I did do some wandering around through town. There is a storage facility across the track where I took this photo in the morning.

The old Fairport NY electric line station. This line is a walking bike trail now at this end of town.

The Rochester Amtrak station looked different to me from what I saw in the past. As it turns out this is a new station built in 2017.