At the Mojave Airport, Progress Rail Services handles switching duties with this EMD SW9.

TRRA's Carrie Avenue service track, just south of N&W's Luther Yard. The jobs based here likely supported the GM assembly plant where 'Vettes and trucks used to be built until the Corvette product... (more)

Note the second horn. A Roger Puta Photograph

Pennsylvania coal hauler Montour Railroad, like fellow coal roads Pittsburg & Shawmut and Cambria & Indiana, relied on EMD switchers as its principal motive power. Here SW9 83 stands outside the e... (more)

In a meeting of vintage equipment, an old SW9 leads 3 passenger cars alongside a 1955 Ford Tractor.

The last sha bang, on a cloudy Tuesday afternoon East Penn's 52 brings the last run from the Paper Mill to the Falls Yard, after many years of operation's on this line, this was the last and final... (more)

The three units assigned to the BJRY operation in Montgomery rest for the weekend at their small yard.

Morning fog is still hanging over much of the valley near Sprankle Mills, Pennsylvania as the Pittsburg & Shawmut train from Brookville takes empty hoppers to the mines. Fortunately the sun has bu... (more)

"I Smell a Skunk!"

I was part of a circle of railfan friends that, while travelling together, had a friendly rivalry to get a better shot than the others in a given situation. It w... (more)

In this section of Pennsylvania, there are two predominate industries – coal and agriculture. Here is evidence of both as the Pittsburg & Shawmut Brookville – Mahoning local rolls through Spra... (more)

After an overnight dusting of snow, the Pittsburg & Shawmut’s turn from Brookville shakes the thin layer of powder off the deck of the 1430-foot Sprankle Mills trestle. Four SW9’s and a long t... (more)

The Pittsburg & Shawmut’s daily train from Brookville to Mahoning, Pennsylvania sometimes could be loaded or empty hoppers, depending on the varied needs and production of the mines along the li... (more)

During June 2000 the United Railroad Historical Society hosted two pair of fantrips over the U.S. Navy Railroad, from Earle, N.J. to the mile long pier at Leonardo, N.J. The train is shown during ... (more)

A couple of former locomotives of the Belt Railway of Chicago fleet meet in an unusual way currently under the Independent Locomotive Service flag. ILSX 917, formerly BRC 523, is seen from the ch... (more)