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This last Sunday, from 10:00 in the morning until 01:30 Monday morning. I had the opportunity to rail fan at Depew station, in Buffalo N.Y. While there, eastbound trains were stacked up on the stations four tracks, due to a derailment in the Rochester N.Y. area. This site sees up wards of 50 trains a day. Lots of Con Rail, CSX, NS, BNSF and other freight as well as Amtrak and VIA connections in the states. I was surprised to see U.P. power on many freights. Met many other rail fans, great folks! Two I talked to were former NYC engineers and both had seen the end of steam on this road! They were there waiting for the American Oriental Express, which was held up and 24 hours late, due to the derailment. Finally around 21:30, the AOE showed up and was it a beaut! Only the crew was aboard, as the passengers had been shipped by bus to their next destination, which the AOE was en route to meet. Talked quite some time with the Amtrak engineer taking the AOE from Depew to Washington D.C. Lots of fun! You guys out east have great opportunities with places like Depew to rail fan at.
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