Pulling A Box Out Of A Box. Genesee Valley Transportation DL 1044 (née-South Buffalo 44, S6, Alco, 12/1956) is the regular power and that works the former Lehigh Valley and New York Central trackage of the Batavia division of the Depew, Lancaster and Western Railroad. Small in size but dense in customers, on the morning of Thursday, June 30, 2022, pulling a pair of box cars out of their warehouse was the last move before a lunch break. The crew had first switched out scrap cars in its own yard so that loading could take place while they headed up to the interchange with CSX and worked at several customers.
New York state has the largest number of ALCO diesel locomotives working in everyday service. Here are some of them. Soon I hope to chronicle all of them.
