The Old Depot Gallery
The Finest in Railroad Art by Robert Frascella
Pennsylvania RR Gallery
Sharks at Cowley
Forty five miles north of Williamsport, PA lies the tiny hamlet of Cowley, PA. Northbound trains fight a steady grade from just above Williamsport to Granville Summit less than a mile away from Cowley. The three Baldwin shark nosed diesels shown here will soon be notching back as they descend the grade to Troy, PA. Long gone are Pennsy decapods that handled this chore for decades as this 1960s era scene depicts.
Original Painting - 12” x 18” Pastel on U-Art Sanded Paper - 2014 (Original Available)
NOW AVAILABLE - a limited number of 12" x 18" Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 500 copies). The prints are reproduced on 51-lb. heavy-weight, Epson paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$50.00 plus $7.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)
Train Orders at Watkins
Watkins Glen, NY is at the southern tip of Seneca Lake in New York's Finger Lakes Region on the Pennsy's Elmira Branch. In this scene, an I-1sa decapod with an empty coal train slows to take train orders from the operator at Watkins Glen. An overnight storm deposited a couple of fresh inches of snow on the landscape as the skies clear and the clouds break apart in this early morning scene.
Original Painting - 12” x 18” Pastel on U-Art Sanded Paper - 2014 (Original SOLD)
NOW AVAILABLE - a limited number of 12" x 18" Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 500 copies). The prints are reproduced on 51-lb. heavy-weight, Epson paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$50.00 plus $7.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)
EC-92 at Tin Bridge
One of the last hold outs for steam powered trains was the Pennsylvania Railroad's Elmira Branch. Local train EC-92 ran southbound from Southport (Elmira) Yard to Williamsport, PA. In this mid-1950s scene, L-1 Mikado No. 2369 was a regular engine on this run. Because EC-92 switched several industries in route they usually placed a cabin car behind the engine for the head end brakeman.
Original Painting - 12” x 18” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2013 (Original Available)
NOW AVAILABLE - a limited number of 12" x 18" Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 500 copies). The prints are reproduced on 51-lb. heavy-weight, Epson paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$50.00 plus $7.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)
Fassett
PRR I1sa No. 4595 is in charge of a westbound coal extra destined for Sodus Point, NY in July of 1956. The train is passing Fassett Tower located in the small village of Fassett, PA within a mile or so of the New York State Line. By the fall of 1957, all steam engines were retired on the Pennsy's Elmira Branch as 126-years of steam powered railroading ended on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Original Painting - 16” x 24” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2009 (Original Available)
NOW AVAILABLE - a limited number of 13" x 19" Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 250 copies) The prints are reproduced on 51-lb. heavy weight, Epson paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$50.00 plus $7.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)
Wildwood P-RSL Perfection (Second Edition)
Pennsylvania Railroad K4s No. 5495 basks in the mid-day sun in the company of two other Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines trains at Wildwood, NJ in the mid-1950's waiting to take the the fishermen and day trippers home.
Original Painting - 18” x 36” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2009 (Original SOLD)
NOW AVAILABLE - A limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 250 copies). The prints are reproduced on 10"x 19", 100-lb. heavy-weight, smooth paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$45.00 plus $7.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)
Extra 4612 West
It's late Fall in 1956 and Pennsylvania Railroad I-1s No. 4612 leads a westbound coal train through the Up-State New York Town of Horseheads on its journey to the dock at Sodus Point on Lake Ontario. In less than a year, all steam power will disappear from the Pennsylvania Railroad but in 1956 steam still reigned on Pennsy's Elmira Branch.
Original Painting - 14” x 24” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2006 (Original Available)
NOW AVAILABLE - a limited number of 12" x 18" Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 250 copies). The prints are reproduced on 51-lb. heavy-weight, Epson paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$45.00 plus $7.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)
Two at Utley
A pair of Pennsylvania Railroad H-10s 2-8-0 locomotives power an eastbound train on the Western Allegheny Railroad during the early 1950's. The train is returning from Queen Junction with empties headed back to the mines in this snowy scene as it approaches a grade crossing at a location known as Utley. The PRR operated the Western Allegheny from 1926 until 1967 when the railroad was sold to the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad.
Original Painting - 8.5” x 12.5” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2007 (Original Available)
NOW AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 50 copies). The prints are reproduced on 12"x 15", 51-lb. heavy weight, smooth paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$30.00 plus $6.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United State .
Elm Block Station
Pennsylvania Railroad E-8 No. 5904 passes the block operator's station at Elm St. in Erie, PA with Train No. 581 on time for a 9:30 am arrival at Erie's Union Station. A local freight train is waiting to depart the yard and head east on the single track main line.
Original Available - 12" x 18" Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - Original SOLD
NOW AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 50 copies). The prints are reproduced on 11"x 14", 100-lb. heavy weight, smooth paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$30.00 plus $6.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)