Framed by an ornate 19th century building that has seen better days, the crew of a Conrail ballast train led by a GP40 switches hoppers at Westfield, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. A nearby qu... (more)

When Penn Central took over the New Haven, it imported a group of ex-PRR six-axle U25Cs to supplement the NH's own U25Bs in heavy freight service on the hilly Maybrook Line. Here U25C 6510 and its... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Reno Fun Train but mostly ex-SP equipment on SP rails with an Espee crew. This would turn out to be the last all F-unit train to cross Donner Pass. The following week, an SDP40F... (more)

Ontario Northland Railway GMD GP9 1605. (1600-1605)

CNW repowered Baldwin 1501 pauses as it switches Kaukauna, WI in February of 1975. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.

Bethlehem Steel’s Patapsco & Back Rivers painted one of its EMD-re-engined Baldwin S12’s in a bicentennial scheme. Here the tribute unit works at the mill in Sparrows Point, Maryland.

Philadelphia, Bethlehem, and New England SW7 44 works a cut of gondolas at the yard in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

GG1 4875 hums past the historic station at Newark, DE, with a southbound Amtrak ballast train. This elegant brick station was built in 1877 by the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, a ... (more)

Amtrak RS3 116 leads the wire train through North Elizabeth, NJ, on its way to or from a catenary maintenance job. Amtrak acquired 45 Penn Central RS3s of PRR, NYC, and NH ancestry in 1976 for yar... (more)

Philadelphia, Bethlehem, and New England SW7 34, assisted by a slug of unknown origins, waits for a switch to enter the Bethlehem yard.

A pair of switchers drill the yard as WC 6654 prepares to depart Shops Yard in Fond Du Lac, WI in May of 1996.

“The Not-So-Ubiquitous Chessie GP40-2”
Sure, in the 80’s you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a Chessie GP40-2. But this example was unique in that it was named, and wa... (more)

Philadelphia, Bethlehem, and New England 27, a 39 year old NW2, pauses with slug 09 near the Lynn Street overpass in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

The wonders of working for the railroad in winter is when you have to get on and off icy equipment to throw a switch, only to find out that you have to clean out the points before you can do so. A... (more)

An eastbound (southbound) military train arrives at Butler yard the middle of a Wisconsin snowstorm on December 3, 1990. The train, led by EMD GP40 No. 5526, is full of equipment headed for deploy... (more)