The Old Depot Gallery
The Finest in Railroad Art by Robert Frascella
Diesel Locomotive Gallery
Pick Up at Okawville
It's the Spring of 1982 and L&N Extra 4053 East picks up empty grain cars at the elevator in the small town of Okawville, IL on the the railroad's St. Louis Line. In a few short years the L&N would become part of the massive CSX Railroad empire and the St. Louis line would become another redundant east-west line for the mega-carrier. The line was abandoned west of Okawville and the right-of-way became part of the St. Louis light rail transit system.
But on this day the single GP 38-2 is earning its keep as it switches the active industries between East St. Louis and Evansville, In. Just another day on the railroad.
Original Painting - 12” x 18” Pastel on U-ART Sanded Paper - 2018 SOLD
GICLEE PRINTS AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 200 copies). The prints are reproduced on 13"x 19", 51-lb. heavy weight, Epson paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$50.00 plus $7.50 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)
NOW AVAILABLE 11 X 14 PRINTS- a limited number of smaller sized Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 50 copies). The prints are reproduced on 11"x 14" (12" x 8" image size), 51-lb. heavy weight, Epson paper and printed with archival inks. Price........$32.00 plus $7.00 Shipping & Handling (US only contact us for S&H cost to locations outside of the United States)
Northbound Merchandise
Plainfield Crossing
A pair of New Haven Railroad Alco RS 2 locomotives hammer across the diamond at Plainfield, CT with a merchandise train in the late 1950s. The painting was inspired by a scene in the 1959 movie It Happened to Jane starring Jack Lemon and Doris Day. In the movie, a steam locomotive ran out of coal and blocked the diamond at this location. Today the diamond is gone, but Plainfield is a very active location on the Providence and Worcester RR.
Original Painting - 12” x 18” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2018 $1200 with double mat and framed. Shipping and Handling extra. Contact us for details.
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GICLEE PRINTS AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 500 copies). The prints are reproduced on 19"x 13", 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)
It's the early 1950s and an A-B-A set of Alcos led by FA-1 No. 1043 work their way north out of the New York Central's Baker Street Yard in Corning, NY. The engines are throttled up for the approaching grade a snow squall just deposited a fresh coat of white powder on the landscape. Sixty-five miles ahead is Lyons, NY where the Fallbrook Line meets the NYC's Water Level Route where the Alcos will have no trouble delivering its consist to DeWitt Yard in Syracuse.
Original Painting - 12” x 18” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2013 (Available) $1200 with double mat and framed. Shipping and Handling extra. Contact us for details.
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GICLEE PRINTS AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 500 copies). The prints are reproduced on 19"x 13", 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)
The Phoebe Snow
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western's premier train during the 1950s was the Phoebe Snow providing daily service on an expedited schedule between Hoboken, NJ and Buffalo, NY. Running westbound as train no. 3, two E-8s led by no. 818 crosses the skewed through-truss bridge over Newtown Creek as it approaches its station stop in Elmira, NY. It's 1955 and within five years the Erie and Lackawanna Railroads will merge into the Erie-Lackawanna RR.
Original Painting - 12” x 18” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2012 (SOLD)
GICLEE PRINTS AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 500 copies). The prints are reproduced on 19"x 13", 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)
Yellow Jackets
In 1988, The New York Susquehanna and Western Railroad acquired four new high horsepower B40-8 General Electric diesel electric locomotive to power its double stack container trains. Painted in a bright yellow and black with diagonal safety stripes, they quickly became known as “yellow jackets.” In this January 1989 scene, two B40-8’s sandwich an older SD 45 to quickly propel a westbound Sea-Land stack train through Big Flats, NY.
Original Painting - 12” x 18” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2012 (Available) $1200 with double mat and framed. Shipping and Handling extra. Contact us for details.
GICLEE PRINTS AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 250 copies). The prints are reproduced on approximately 13"x 19", 51-lb. heavy weight, Epson premium 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)
Ansonia Encounter
Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad GE 126-ton locomotive No. 1700 has just cut off from its caboose and is about to set off three box cars at the NYC interchange track. The WAG connected with two mainline railroads – the Erie Railroad at Wellsville, NY and the New York Central Railroad at Ansonia, PA. In this 1957 scene as No. 1700 approaches the interchange track, a northbound NYC coal train speeds by on the mainline.
Original Painting - 16" x 24" Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper- 2010 (Available) $1500 with double mat and framed. Shipping and Handling extra. Contact us for details.
GICLEE PRINTS AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 250 copies). The prints are reproduced on approximately 13"x 19", 51-lb. heavy weight, Epson premium 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)
Lake Placid Turn
Lake Placid, NY is at the end of a very long New York Central branch line that extends for 142-miles from Utica, NY through the spectacular Adirondack Park. RS-3 No. 8223 is shown here working its way though the yard after dropping a combine at the station and headed off to work switching cars in the yard. The scene depicts the later years when passenger service was handled by a single car attached to the end of a freight train.
Original Painting - 12" x 18" Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2008 (SOLD)
GICLEE PRINTS AVAILABLE - a limited number of Giclée prints signed and numbered by the artist (limited to 50 copies). The prints are reproduced on 19"x 13", 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)
Second NY-100
Erie Lackawanna Railroad's expedited freight train was given the train symbol NY-100 for its eastbound trip from Chicago to New York. The hottest traffic on the railroad was moved on this train. On some occasions traffic was so heavy that it required the railroad to run a second section of NY-100 to accommodate the overflow. Symbolled as Second NY-100, the train is powered by two SDP-45's as it rolls east through Big Flats, NY in the pre-dawn hours of January 1968.
Original Painting - 10” x 14” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2003 (Available) $500 with double mat and framed. Shipping and Handling extra. Contact us for details.
GICLEE PRINTS 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'", 51-lb. heavy weight, Epson 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)
Waiting for the Local
Rock Island GP-40 no. 344 and two road weary mates hold the mainline waiting for a meet with a westbound local at Gerald, MO in the summer of 1976. Though the first boxcar displays the Rock's new image, it would take more than paint and fancy graphics to revive this once great prairie hauler. Alas, within four short years the Rock would be all but a memory.
Original Painting - 12” x 18” Pastel on Wallis Sanded Paper - 2006 (Available) $1000 with double mat and framed. Shipping and Handling extra. Contact us for details.
GICLEE PRINTS 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", 51-lb. heavy weight, Epson 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)