Seen high above the Little Schuylkill River valley, CNJ RS3 1554 pulls an excursion train over the high bridge at Hometown, Pennsylvania.

After serving the Black River & Western for a decade, former Jersey Central RS3 1554 was acquired by the Hawk Mountain Chapter, NRHS and restored to its original appearance. The RS3 spent some tim... (more)

Before It Was Famous

Many photos of Jersey Central RS3 1554 have appeared on this site as is serves the Delaware-Lackawanna. Here the 1953 Alco is in its original paint on the rail... (more)

A CNJ westbound with RS3 1548 - GP7 1526 - RS3 1549 storms through Bound Brook station. As usual, I was out with my father this day, and seem suitably impressed with the passing train. R.T. Stein... (more)

A pair of Jersey Central RS-3s working a switch job at the big CNJ/RDG yard in Allentown, PA, attach themselves to the rear of a freight. I don't remember at this point whether they were putting i... (more)

Nighttime in Scranton, Pennsylvania finds two Delaware Lackawanna ex D&H RS3s as they stand for a midnight portrait on October 4, 2014.

CNJ 1554 and 2 CNJ coaches stops by the Delaware Lackawanna Bridge 60 dispatch tower for a photo run-by during Railfest 2018. In the background is the former CNJ freight house.

EX Delaware & Hudson 4085 sits in Port Jervis in an Erie inspired paint scheme.

Central of New Jersey RS-3 1555 at Raritan yard.

CNJ RS-3 1554 sits with work train equipment at Elizabethport

Pennsburg’s finest have traffic on Pennsylvania Route 663 stopped so the Anthracite Railway’s locomotive, a Delaware & Hudson RS3, can run around its excursion train.

The Anthracite Railway operated a series of excursions between Pennsburg, Pennsylvania and the Dillingersville tunnel on the former Reading Perkiomen Branch in November, 1985. The power, an unrenu... (more)

Two of Delaware Lackawanna's beauties bask in the afternoon sun. The Delaware & Hudson logo on the boxcar notes the pairs' heritage.

A Penn Central commuter train powered by a New York Central RS-3 makes its station stop at Newtonville, MA, en route from Framingham to Boston on a summer morning. In later years the NYC's passeng... (more)

On a Sunday afternoon in Penn Central's first summer, New York Central RS-3s gather at the Putnam Junction engine terminal in Brewster, NY, to await the Monday morning rush hour. By this time the ... (more)