Upon approaching the shop area of the Ontario Northland, an employee approached me. I assumed I was history. Instead he was coming to tell me that if I signed a release and picked up a hard hat, I... (more)

Western Maryland was still very active between Bayard and Elkins into the late 70's. This coal train arrived at the same time I did and set up this great mood shot beside an abandonded store.

The second year I returned to Bayard, all of the locomotives were gone. In their place were three hopper cars from the three systems that would make up the Chessie System in 1977. C&O B&O WM. othe... (more)

RS-3 switching long cuts of coal hoppers at the overcrowded Elkins yard.

My favorite Tempo shot.

Full hookup of GP9s going under the famous overpass on a curve near Barrowsville at nightfall.

Two freights still in full Pennsy colors meet on the north side of the curve. An SD45 grinds upgrade with 70 empty hoppers and a helper. While a U-25-B eases downgrade with a mixed freight. The ma... (more)

Three GP38s latest new power on LV pull heavy train under the EL bridge at Waverly.

The new Century is on the Lehigh Valley Binghampton to Sayre sub at a place where it is 100 or more feet away from Erie Lackawanna Main. Though the track seemed in terrible shape, trains were stil... (more)

A geep and E unit combination. Each one doing his part fo AMTRAK.

E units for commuter service spending the night out in the open with the last glimmers of daylight anointing them.

Here is something to chew on. GP9s in high speed shorline passenger service to Hew York. These geeps are performing like E units. By this time AMTRAK had takenover PC passenger service but had not... (more)

This Island Creek coal facility served a tunnel mine, a shaft mine and a strip mine and generated 50 or more loads a day prior to unit trains.