Three Conrail Schenectady products are on the leads at the Altoona backshop. The RS-27 is apparently in for truck work, as it is sitting on shop trucks. The two former Reading C424's are most like... (more)

A Baltimore & Ohio GP40-2 and a Chesapeake & Ohio B30-7 bring a train of empties through Danville, West Virginia. The S4 on the left belongs to the Southern Appalachian Coal Company (Julian Mines)... (more)

The Western Maryland purchased two EMD BL2’s in 1948, and placed them in road service, where they remained for twenty years. In 1968, they were permanently assigned to yard service in Hagerstown... (more)

The Bessemer & Lake Erie dieselized its road power with 28 F7A’s, 26 F7B’s, and a variety of six-axle power. The six-axle power won favor, and no more four-axle road power was ever added to th... (more)

”Someday, This Will Be Mine!”

An aspiring young engineer holds onto the handrail of one of the world’s largest diesel locomotives as he poses for a portrait. In a few short h... (more)

Trinidad did not rate a larger, mission-style station like Raton, but that did not prevent the Santa Fe from proudly proclaiming the station's town and owner with large neon signs. Sadly, the stat... (more)

The Delaware and Hudson was always loyal to on-line customer Alco. The majority of its steam roster was built in Schenectady, and dieselization was accomplished entirely with S2’s, S4’s, RS2�... (more)

Local lore in the Allentown area said that Conrail’s ex-Lehigh & Hudson River C420’s were intended to be run until they had problems, and would then be retired. They were also not to be repain... (more)

Palmerton was a gritty town in the heyday of the New Jersey Zinc Company. Train AS-1 (Allentown - Sayre) passes the west plant, which is almost completely veiled in its own pollution.

The Allentown/Bethlehem area became the home of Conrail's former Lehigh & Hudson River's C420's, as well as the ex-Lehigh Valley's RS11's. Here an example of each adds blue smoke to an already glo... (more)

Delaware & Hudson train PYRP’S power has run around its cars after arriving at South Bethlehem from Philadelphia. Soon the train will retrace the last few miles before diverging toward Lehighton... (more)

The 611 crosses the Virginian bridge at Narrows, VA.

Over eight years after the formation of Conrail, patched units were still floating around, including this one leading a trainload of coal bound for the Bethlehem Steel coke works up the South Beth... (more)

Bow Coal at Jeff Junction

A unit train of coal bound for the Public Service of New Hampshire power plant at Bow, New Hampshire is approaching the Delaware & Hudson Penn Division at... (more)

D&H Train PYRP comes down the “ramp” into Lehighton, Pennsylvania. The ramp was created in 1967 when competitors Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley entered into a joint trackage agreement and co... (more)