This link was posted somewhere here before, but I wanted to point out that beside several photos of the recently-saved, ex-Ford GE unit, there are a number of photos of F units that served briefly on the Wellsville, Addison & Galeton in Pennsylvania, that were later saved. There are photos of most of them in their post-WAG venues as well as on that shortline. A good chronology here. Is anything left of the shop buildings of the WAG? Was the track removed after shut down?

http://www.s363.com/wag/photos.html

After the WAG was closed, all of its track was removed.

I can't say for sure if all of the Galeton shop buildings that were present when the WAG was operating are still there, but most of them are still around. The station/office still stands and, at one point, there was rumblings of a grassroots effort to preserve the building.

The WAG/B&S ROW is a very interesting hike. It's not a public trail, but I've had no problem getting permission to walk portions of it. It always amazes me how the B&S was built and that so much of it lasted until the 1970s. It's a big regret of mine to not have been able to see her operate.

Keith Burkey

Bob,

Here is another WAG website to check out:

http://www.wagplow.org/

The Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum rosters a former WAG (nee Boston&Maine) wooden Russell snowplow. One of our younger members (now ~20 years old) started working on its cosmetic restoration a few years back and put this website together to build on his work on the plow. Progress has been steady given all of the other time constraints he has. He has really done a nice job with the project for us, and I know he is looking forward to getting back to work on it this summer. In the end after all of the carpentry is done, it will be returned to WAG colors since that is the most appropriate paint job the plow once wore for our geographic locale.

Thanks!

Regards,
Chris Hauf
http://www.rgvrrm.org/

The WAG tore up most, but not all of its track, after they quit in 1979. Some of the yard trackage remained in Galeton, for several years. This track was isolated, but there were a number of pieces of rolling stock there until approx 1986.

Included in the "collection" were two ancient GE centercab diesel/battery units, a former WP F7B that had been cannibalized for parts, a former B&M wooden snow plow, a medium-duty crane, several flatcars and tank cars, and several pieces of track equipment. This was all cleaned out, in a scrap drive, circa 1986. I believe that the rails were also scrapped at that time, but I never went back to confirm this.

JR

About March 1980 when NHIR bought the tariff files (WA&G, C&PA, B&O, BR&P, etc.), I saw at least the two ancient GE centercab diesel/battery units, 2 wooden snow plows, and several flatcars. I'm not sure about the B unit or the other stuff. They were a set of 2 plows, both for double track, one plowed to the left and the other, to the right! The Ford loco was apparently still waiting on the interchange with ConRail.
About April, 1989 the tank car and some plate girder bridges remained, all in faded orange paint, but much less track. (It was the last day that Buffalo, N.Y. subway tokens cost 85 cents.) Someone had torch-cut the straps that held the tank to its flatcar frame. Next spring, the bridges were gone, but it was too dark to see the tank car.