BN 9900 was the only E unit owned by the SP&S and was numbered 750 with that railroad. It teams up with an FP7 to lead tr. 22, the Portland connection for the EMPIRE BUILDER. I rode the sleeping c... (more)

Class A 1217 pulls upgrade with an eastbound merchandise train, probably no. 84, near the small overpass at Blue Ridge.

Famous class A 1218 drifts westbound down the Blue Ridge grade with a merchandise train that will soon be in Roanoke.

S1a 0-8-0 232 is ready for work at Shaffers Crossing. This locomotive was only three years old at the time having been part of the final group built by Roanoke in 1953.

Lines of GMD GP9 and MLW RS-10 units are lined up at the Turcot engine terminal. Canadian National steam will soon be banned to lines further west .

Steam power still hauled commuter trains and one express to Ottawa in June 1959. H1c Royal Hudson 2822 departs for Ottawa on Sunday afternoon with the express.

Reading Alco FA-1 units 302 and 304 sit at E. Penn Jct..

GMD FP9 6508 and F9B 6608 are departing Montreal with train 5, LA SALLE, for Toronto and Chicago. The units were delivered in 1955 but still look new. The weather was beautiful on this Monday morn... (more)

EL Alco Century 424 2403 and two others are at Port Jervis. These were the only new locomotives delivered to the merged railroad in black and yellow and were built in May 1963.

A Great Northern F7 wears the Big Sky Blue color scheme while its mate is in the simplified orange and olive. I was on a USAF trip escorting the Thunderbirds with our C-130E from Langley AFB, Virg... (more)

Canadian National U-2-g 6218 sits at Drummondville having been cut off the passenger excursion from Montreal. This was the cleanest steam locomotive I've ever seen even having run over 60 miles wi... (more)

Reading T-1 2102 is being turned at Gettysburg having pulled an Iron Horse Ramble from Philadelphia. The 2102 relieved 2100 at Rutherford. The Reading had planned to end the Rambles in 1963 but fa... (more)

Leased RF&P E8 1014 drifts down the Blue Ridge grade with tr. 25, POWHATAN ARROW. The class J 4-8-4s were mostly in standby or freight service after N&W President Stuart Saunders decided to hurry ... (more)

Lehigh Valley 518 is still in the original Cornell red color scheme as the A-B-B-A set of F3 units backs up at Lehighton late on a May afternoon.

A freshly painted wood-sheathed caboose sits in Turcot yard.