Lehighton Bicentennials 2 - After the westbound train that I followed to Lehighton cleared the interlocking where the CNJ and LV mains joined after 1972, the helper set with the EL bicentennial SD... (more)

The Boston and Maine local crew has the unenviable job of switching the White River Junction yard on a cold, snowy, December day.

A Gem in the Woods

The Chestnut Ridge Railway, winding east from its home borough of Palmerton, traversed an entirely rural route eleven miles along the base of Blue Mountain unti... (more)

Fresh from Pullman-Standard’s Butler, Pennsylvania plant, one of a string of Rio Grande covered hoppers rolls through Conrail’s yard in Allentown. I don’t know what routing sent the cars eas... (more)

Switch on a Bridge

A Bethlehem Steel-bound Conrail ore train crosses the Lehigh River in Bethlehem, PA. The train is coming from the former Jersey Central main line, and is enteri... (more)

In the early evening hours of a late May day, a Clinchfield freight rolls north outside of Glenwood, NC. The three locomotives (two SD40's and an SD40-2) display the three paint schemes used by th... (more)

Susquehanna’s eastbound Sea-Land stack train NTV-4 has stopped at the site of the former freight yard in Port Jervis, New York. When ready to continue on to Little Ferry, three Centuries and thr... (more)

One of Conrail’s former Erie/EL E8’s escaped the fate of its roster mates, who gave up their prime movers to the DeWitt Geep RS3 re-engine program. Shortly after the consolidation, Conrail’... (more)

Pairs

The symmetry of two back-to-back locomotives of the same model lends a pleasing element to any railroad photo. Here a pair of Conrail C425’s works the yard in Altoona, whil... (more)

Westbound Conrail train ALCG (Allentown – Corning) rolls through the sprawling acreage that was once the Lehigh Valley’s Packerton yard. The yard, located between Lehighton and Jim Thorpe, Pen... (more)

All panned up and nowhere to go: Eight months after its delivery to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, former Amtrak GG1 4935 has settled into its new home. Showing the wear of several years of... (more)

Three of Maine Central’s Independence Class “baby boats” and a GP7 lead a train into Rigby Yard in Portland, Mane. The ten U18’s were named for revolutionary war patriots and concepts, and... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 disturbs the morning calm at Hawk’s Nest, West Virginia. Loaded coal hoppers trail back as far as the eye can see.

Before the Potomac Eagle

When the State of West Virginia purchased the B&O line from Green Spring to Morefield, It found a pair of army surplus MRS1’s to power the South Branch ... (more)

The Shannopin mine railroad: A trip to photograph the Monongahela Railway yielded a day with the usually-busy Waynesburg Southern side of the MGA dead due to scheduled track work. The only activi... (more)