A 1966-built SD40 leads a 2-unit helper set on the point of a westbound intermodal rounding the old B&O's horseshoe curve at Mance

The PRR 1361 is whistling for a farm crossing, as pacers on US Route 220 chase the 4-car train from Milesburg to Tyrone.

Reading T-1 No. 2102 is back in steam after 30+ years, with a test train of 50 empty hoppers, running between Reading and Jim Thorpe. The train is headed upgrade along the Reading's Little Schuyl... (more)

Heavy action on Sand Patch grade, with a westbound B&O SD40 helper passing an eastbound manifest's caboose. Note the intact pole lines on both sides of the tracks. No. 7597 was built in April of... (more)

80 mph doubleheaded GG-1s 925 & 919 are about to give us a good spraying from their twenty-four 57" driving wheels on a rainy Saturday in 1977.

The Monongehela Heritage Unit passing Lebanon landmarks, L to R; the old city garage, Scull Street row homes, Yale Electric Supply, the 1900-built Reading passenger station, and the old Railroad H... (more)

A PRR High-Cube boxcar trails an E-44 eastbound, probably heading to an auto assembly plant in Delaware or New Jersey. The 110288 was built by Pullman-Standard in 1964-65 as part of PRR series 11... (more)

Paoli, 1975- the Broadway Limited eases to a stop on its way from Chicago to New York. Note the two sleepers behind the baggage car. If you want to make the trip today, you hop off the Capitol L... (more)

A Phillies Baseball Special is ready to depart from behind the old JFK (Municipal) Stadium, in the shadow of I-95. This was a doubleheaded GG1-powered all-Amfleet train from Harrisburg. Most bas... (more)

The Phoebe Snow Special passing under the old Lackawanna signal bridge along William Street

Conrail's ex-New Haven caboose Class N-8A No. 23662 (originally NH Class NE-6 No. 687,) built by International Car Co. in 1948, rounds the Horseshoe Curve westbound, behind a Penn Central trail va... (more)

A Penn Central helper set shoves a mineral train westbound as a nearly-new Silverliner IV gets ready to head east to Philadelphia. The ex-PRR electrification from Paoli east is 100 years old this... (more)

A Big Boy meeting an FEF-3 in Ogden was an everyday occurrence in the 1940s and 50s, but quite a sight to behold in this day and age. The masonry wall behind the 844 is the modern-day FrontRunner... (more)

A pedestrian steps around the gate just as the Erie Heritage Unit approaches the crossing, and fortunately decides to go no further.

An unlikely doubleheader of a 4-6-2 & 0-6-0 is pulling the 11:00 a.m. train back to Minersville; one of three trains operated that day. The 425 was built for the Gulf, Mobile, and Northern by Bal... (more)