New Pictures of MTR 77 Jan-2009 courtesy of Matt Provenza. I've left them in the highest detail the way Matt sent them. Excellent photos of 'ole 77.

       
Glassport, Pennsylvania. Saturday October 21, 2006. Here's a photo from RailPictures

Was in Glassport (Pa) this snowy Wednesday morning (25-Jan-2006). Stopped at the former "Glassport River Terminal" where a former Montour SW-7 works. Was surprised to see the river terminal...now titled MonRiver something or another...vacant. No chains or gates to deal with, so I drove right up to the SW-7. Looks as if it hasn't been used in quite sometime. - Gene P. Schaeffer

Montour #70 was scrapped in Jun-2007. You can see the process here.

 
Let me tell you how the 76 got a new paint job. When the PL&E RR decided to finally buy and bury the Montour in 1976, they had a big meeting with the union personnel of the different union crafts on the Montour, they said the engine was finally coming home again and I made the suggestion why not paint it red, white and blue for the bicentennial since its number was 76,and low and behold they agreed.

Back then Bob Scofield was working in the storeroom and he created the design and it was painted in our shop. R.J. Lane

Cab end of 76, C. A. Ross with the engine.

  SW9's #77, 76 and 78 are lined up outside the shops of this little coal-hauler at Coraopolis, PA on September 20, 1980. #76 is still in it's bicentennial paint scheme. - Doug Kroll (www.rr-roadtrip.com)

As of March 13, 2008, Montour 77 was still intact at a locomotive dealer near Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania. The Montour logos are still there. Photos by Matt Provenza

Update 2009-01 with more photos from Matt

SW9's #84 and 81 at Coraopolis, PA on 10/19/80. When the online mines shut down, operations were suspended in 1983 and the line abandoned in 1986.- Doug Kroll (www.rr-roadtrip.com)

16-Oct-2006 I pointed the car opposite of Western Maryland country and headed for Mahoning County, Ohio. Today's goal, find Montour wood caboose 42. Low and behold, in the Western Reserve Village of the Canfield, Fairgrounds there sat Montour Wood Caboose #42. Built in 1929 by the Standard Steel Car Company, Butler, Pennsylvania, Montour 42 stayed on Montour RR property until 1956. In 1956 she went to the Y&S where she stayed for a couple years before being donated to the Boy Scout Council, in Mahoning County. I was just tickled seeing caboose 42. I have never seen one of these particular class's of wood cabooses, until today. Other than her steel work, this caboose is in pristine condition. Inside and out, she is immaculate, other than her "Y&S" reporting marks. How do you tell the caboose on display at the Canfield, Ohio Fairgrounds is actual "Montour"?
Check the truck side frame.
Clearly...through all of the rust, "M.R.R." is still evident.
Gene P. Schaeffer

Caboose 36