Most Alco locomotives moved west on the D&H...it in fact was the sole server of the plant...and quite often went west to Binghamton and handed off to the Erie to take on the Chicago or other western connections. Some did go to NYC in Schenectady and west, though. From pictures I've seen, the Big Boys went west through BInghamton via D&H-Erie. An irony in 1964 was a Big Boy moving east to Steamtown in Vermont...LV brought it in from the NKP in Buffalo and handed it off to the D&H to deliver to the B&M. And there are many pictures of all kinds of Alco power passing through Binghmton on its way west. Some also went over the D&H Penn DIv. south from Nineveh, NY to PA and PRR and other west and south connections.
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I am a fan of the UP Bigboy and I was Wondering.
If the Bigboy's were Made in The ALCO plant in Scenectity, NY What route did the finished product take to get from the plant to the UP Headquarters in Wyoming.
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