NEW YORK SUSQUEHANNA AND WESTERN

The Susie-Q is a favorite railroad of many railfans. With its scenic rights-of-way and beautiful yellowjacket locomotives, the Susquehanna is a wonderful operation. Official NYS&W Railway Corporation Homepage. Currently under construction. New York Susquehanna and Western Technical and Historical Society.  This is the offical website for the Susie-Q's historical society. News, pictorials, and a chat room are among the featured items here. Unofficial NYS&W Web Page.  A Susquehanna fan page. Includes some great pictures and locomotive status reports. Check this site often as it is updated frequently. Susquehanna.Railfan.Net is a new site with lots of info and photos from the Susquehanna. Mike Brandt posts the Susquehanna Photo of the Week each Tuesday. NEW! Utica Railfan Guide is loaded with Susquehanna info and pictures. NEW! A Fall Foliage Trip to Baird's Farm nicely details the 1997 Southern Division Fall Foliage Excursion. NEW! NYS&W Timetable No. 26 (1955). NEW! Ian's Railroad Photos features a large and high-quality Susquehanna section. From England, a short photo essay on NYS&W #142. Visit this illustrated tour of the Paulinskill Valley Trail, which parallels former NYS&W trackage. Highly recommended site. Information on the Susquehanna's restored Driebe Freight Station in Stroudsburg, PA. Railroad and Railfan magazine has an interesting article called Sparta Mountain and the Susquehanna Loop. A few excerpts from the newsgroups on the New York Susquehanna & Western Railroad maintained by Daniel Convissor. Jeff Sumberg maintains a great Susie-Q photo page. Background on NJ Transit's NYS&W Passenger Service Project. NEW! Otto Vondrak's Selected Railroad Images page has a Susie-Q GP-18 shot at Ridgefield Park. (There are many other nice Northeast shots here as well.)

THE CLASS GG-1 ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE

"The Standard Electric Locomotive of the World" The PRR's famous GG-1 was one of the most beautiful and revered locomotives ever produced. Designed by Raymond Lowey, this engine changed the face of railroading forever. The GG-1 Homepage. Background, specs, and photo roster. Wes Barris presents the Surviving GG-1's Roster. HARRIS Mountaintop's Illustrated GG-1 Roster. Pierce Haviland's GG-1 Page. Pierce used to run 'em. All Known Existing GG-1's. The Virginia Museum of Transportation has a page on GG-1 Number 4919.

• Pennsylvania Railroad - The Standard Railroad of the World
• Lehigh Valley - The Route of the Black Diamond
• Erie Lackawanna
  • The Erie Lackawanna Railroad Home Page

• An absolutely wonderful collection of E and F unit shots
• Milepost 21 - A Northeast Photopage
• Jerry's Railroad Photo Album (alternate link)
• Stan's RailPix
• Rail Photos from the Northeast, US, and CA at Harris Mountaintop- wow! (shortcut to GG-1 shots)
• New York Perspectives: Photos by Phillip Buehler has several interesting rail-related photographs.
• The Morningside Heights Residents Association offers the following NYC pictures:
  • Morningside Heights from the River (1908), in which a train of boxcars on the old New York Central tracks is visible.
  • 125th St. Subway Viaduct (Early 1900's)
• New York Central Railroad train pulls out of Van Cortlandt Park, 1908, courtesy of the Friends of Van Cortlandt Park
• Railpace's Photo Gallery
• The Philadelphia Transportation Page has some great pictures of trains and trolleys from the Philadelphia Region, and also has a special page devoted to the Cape May Seashore Lines.
• Finger Lakes Railway Excursion Photos
• Railroading Items of Interest

•  Museums and Historical Societies

• New York Transit Museum - official
• New York Transit Museum - unofficial
• Whippany Railway Museum
• Danbury Railway Museum
• Railroad Museum of Long Island
• The North American Tourist Railroad and Railroad Museum List
• New Jersey Museum of Transportation at Allaire State Park (Pine Creek Railroad)
• Rochester & Genesee Valley/New York Museum of Transportation
• Baltimore Railroad Museum
• Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
• Amtrak Historical Society
• The Chessie System Historical Society
 
• Advocacy Groups / Organizations
  • Philadelphia Trolley Coalition
  • Delaware Valley Association of Rail Passengers
  • NJ Association of Railroad Passengers
  • Friends of Amtrak
  • Operation Lifesaver, Inc.

Last material modification September 22, 1998. Copyright © 1998, Richard L. Ahrens.