A Slateford Jct Turn heads south of Cresco PA with an earlier than expected train as the leaves begin to mature for the summer in the dense forest Pocono Mountains.

The crew of today's Saturday PT98 have been busy with extensive switching done at Tobyhanna and Mount Pocono including a drop off at Bestway Lumber at Cresco. Five Centuries rumble by Gravel Plac... (more)

Approching towards Portland ahead carefully through the sea of new spring greens already infested with about a million ticks.

On a very warm spring afternoon, the Saturday DL PT98 job ambles into the Delaware Water Gap with DL 3643 2461 2423 3000 & 3642 with fifty cars for the NS swap at Portland.

Carbon and Acid

With approximately forty cars of sulfuric acid in the consist, CP/D&H train 700 rolls toward its destination of Baltimore as it crosses the CSX Susquehanna River br... (more)

The “acid train”, CP/D&H train 700, starts its journey from Philadelphia to Baltimore at the entrance to CSX’ East Side Yard. Fortunately the drab GATX SD40-2, which was destined to become a... (more)

Near the location of the CP 4744 shot, the photographer encountered a heavy CN freight with big power.

A Roger Puta Photograph

CP/D&H train 701, empty sulfuric acid tank cars, has arrived from Baltimore at CSX’ East Side Yard in Philadelphia. The power, an all-MLW M636/C424/M636 lashup, has uncoupled from its train so t... (more)

PT-98 rolls downgrade through Henryville shortly after working Bestway in Cresco. The entire train is visible from this angle, and you can barely discern the yellow railings of the two units at t... (more)

PT-98 rolls toward Portland with five light units, all in "corporate" paint. The crew had dropped their train at Gravel Place and would later bring a heavy train west from the NS interch... (more)

WNYP's Driftwood Turn heads south through North Eldred.

PT-98 accelerates out of Moscow with a generous display of "Alco smoke" on an unusually warm autumn day in the Poconos. At right is the nicely restored former Lackawanna freight house.

PT-98 slows on the approach to the siding adjacent to Horizon Milling in Mount Pocono. The crew will pick up a large cut of empty grain cars before proceeding east to Slateford Junction.

Delaware-Lackawanna train PT-98 races uphill, passing the former Lackawanna station in Moscow, powered by three big Alco 636's of CP, PC, and BCOL origins, and an ex-BCOL MLW M420W. Once PT-98 cre... (more)