A WB freight passes a yard full of derelict equipment as it enters Altoona on a steamy August morning. The pair of GP35 powering the train were built for the PRR in 1964.
New York area commuter service to the Jersey shore on the former New York & Long Branch was one of the last strongholds of E units. Here a Penn Central E8A stands near the engine house lead in Sou... (more)
Four days into the PRR-New York Central merger, operations were still as they were in the Pennsy years. Here we see GG1 4935 blasting steam out of its boiler shortly after pulling an SCL train thr... (more)
There wasn't much flashiness about Penn-Central. On an August evening, an FP7 (former PRR 9834) and NYC U28B lead a string of 146 empty hoppers through the super-elevated curve at Mexico, PA, bene... (more)
On an April day long ago Conrail was just a budding entity, the prospects of which did not seem much more favorable than its predecessor lines. Traffic was always healthy out on the old Middle Di... (more)