A Delaware & Hudson Penn Division detour train begins the journey north to Binghamton, having reversed direction after entering the former Erie Jefferson Division at Jefferson Junction. The portio... (more)

The Reading Company locomotive alumni association held an organizational meeting at the Altoona backshop on March 31, 1978. Shown from left to right are member numbers 5203, 2711, and 5208. Sadly,... (more)

Little train, big trestle: On December 16, 1986, the Susquehanna ran a one-car inspection train to see the new routing for their trains. This new route would allow the Susie-Q to avoid the traffic... (more)

The Lehigh Valley had several yards in the geographic region that inspired its name. Between the small yards near the passenger station and passenger car shops in Easton, and the division point at... (more)

The Pittsburg & Shawmut Brookville turn rumbles through Timblin, Pennsylvania. The one-time depot is almost completely hidden by the tree.

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A 1981 visit to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore yielded this group of locomotives, representing four distinct types of mid-century mainline motive power mau... (more)

A Conrail Office Car Special rolls west on the Amtrak Harrisburg Line, passing SEPTA’s former PRR gingerbread station at Strafford, Pennsylvania. E-units were quite unusual on this line, as the ... (more)

Arguably the most scenic location along the Scenic Line of the World, the Royal Gorge commanded a good portion of Rio Grande publicity, including the slogan ”Royal Gorge Route”, and a passen... (more)

The Pittsburg & Shawmut Brookville turn kicks up snow that blows across the cemetery in Timblin, Pennsylvania. Today it would be appropriate for a headstone to be on the roadbed.

In order to gain access to trackage rights on the Jersey Central, the Lehigh and Hudson River had to build a bridge over the Delaware River between Phillipsburg, NJ, and Easton, PA. This connector... (more)

For Labor Day weekend, 1978, a college friend and I planned a three day trip to Buffalo, with the primary objective of seeing some of the remaining ex-Penn Central RSD5’s before they were retire... (more)

Susquehanna stack train NTV-9 crosses the Chenango River while making its exit from Binghamton, New York. Three SD45’s in progressive stages of the transformation from BN to NYS&W provide the po... (more)

End door box cars were always uncommon. By 1979, they were even more so. Here a Conrail X41F-class example visits DeWitt yard. Built in 1946 as one of 200 PRR X41A-class double door, end door cars... (more)

The Jersey Central’s last purchase of new freight power was twelve SD35’s in 1965. Nine secondhand SD40’s from the B&O rounded out the CNJ’s second generation freight roster, and together ... (more)

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The Baltimore & Ohio kept company-service tank cars at some of its engine facilities, presumably for fuel storage. Photos exist showing cars that appear to be of later vinta... (more)