Conrail RSD5 6802 awaits its fate in the deadline at Collinwood, Ohio. Unfortunately, that fate was the scrapper’s torch.

While five 3000-hp Burlington Northern C-C’s cross the trestle over the Salt Creek in Pueblo, Colorado, Powder River-bound empty hoppers snake behind them. Although the train disappears behind t... (more)

Lehighton Bicentennials 4 - Returning to Lehighton with the hopes of finding the EL bicentennial SD45 in helper service, I was instead surprised by finding the D&H RS3u bicentennial locomotive lea... (more)

With a DODX idler flat coupled to tank cars full of aviation fuel for adjacent Pope Air Force Base, the Cape Fear Railway crew pumps up air before returning to Fort Bragg. Today, the Cape Fear’s... (more)

LV 212 idles in Bethlehem engine terminal. This tired unit came to the LV from the Penn Central in 1972 as a trade for the original 212, an even more tired RS2. The PC, which controlled the LV, us... (more)

An Allentown-bound Delaware & Hudson train rolls through the Lehigh Gap on an August morning. Two ex-Reading GP39-2’s bracket two GP39-2’s bought new from EMD. There’s also an ex-Reading wid... (more)

Reading T-1 4-8-4 2102 leads a Philadelphia-bound excursion through Valley Junction on the Reading Belt Line. The train is coming from Belt Line Junction, and will travel on the Belt Line to Birds... (more)

Although the motive power and crew car are different than on its predecessor California Zephyr, which began service on this route in March, 1949, the last-ever westbound Rio Grande Zephy... (more)

Chasing eastbound Susquehanna Sea-Land stack train NTV-4, we set up for a shot of it rounding the sweeping curve at Narrowsburg, New York. As the train was coming into view, a pair of Contrail SD5... (more)

A visit to Conrail’s Conway Yard in August, 1978 began with hopes of seeing some of the sis-axle Alco Centuries that frequented the area. While we found our quarry, the real prize was this forme... (more)

The Alloy Mill of Bethlehem Steel’s main plant provides a backdrop for a pair of Conrail trains meeting in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This is one of only a few times that one of Conrail’s four f... (more)

An E8 of PRR origin waits for an assignment at Amtrak’s Ivy City engine terminal in Washington, DC. Today, the classic EMD is part of the collection at the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati.

Most likely withdrawn from service by this date, three of RF&P’s four GP7’s stand near the Bryan Park shops. Parts from all four were later used to create a single GP7, numbered 101 and painte... (more)

Landslide!

The Blandon Low Grade bypass of Reading, Pennsylvania runs adjacent to the Berks Products limestone quarry at Temple, Pennsylvania. On June 24, 1984, the wall of the qua... (more)

A northbound Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac intermodal train approaches the intermodal facility at Potomac Yard. The Washington Monument is on the center horizon, while the U.S. capitol is on ... (more)