Mop meets Rock. On July 3, 1965, two weeks after massive floods shut down almost all rail service into Denver the situation along Colorado’s Joint Line is still far from normal. Missouri Pacific... (more)
For several years after the Erie-Lackawanna was absorbed into Conrail, the classic Lackawanna electric service into Hoboken continued on. Here, a Sunday local heads to Hoboken on a bright fall da... (more)
The Philadelphia to Jersey City, N.J. train 600 the "Crusader" at West Trenton, New Jersey July 1961. In the lead EMD FP7 No. 905 with No.902. Photo taken from my slide collection, photographer... (more)
Fireman’s view from eastbound flagship Train 20, "The Chief," as it meets westbound Train 23, "The Grand Canyon," climbing the Colorado side of Raton Pass near Gallinas on May 10, 1967. Raton ... (more)
A Empire Service Train. A Roger Puta Photograph
An SD40 leads 3 SD45's up the hill and around the curve. I'm only guessing that the lead 2 units are the helpers that will come off at the top of the hill.
Strasburg 2-10-0 90 gleams as it sports the “American Flyer” look with white driver tires and running board edges. The decapod has carried many paint variations during its fifty year career wi... (more)
The date says Conrail, but the scene is pure Reading. On the third weekend of Conrail’s existence, a lot of motive power has been shuffled, but the train patterns are still intact. Here a coal ... (more)
PC4427 leads a freight onto the Northeast Corridor just south of Lane Tower on a snowy January day.
An Amtrak Metroliner (now in Keystone service) meets Reading (SEPTA) RDC No. 9163 in Parkesburg, Pa. The RDC is heading for the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg to be restored as Lehig... (more)
Penn Central was less than a year old (and still solvent!) in December of 1968. A pair of GE E44 electrics still in PRR paint have brought a manifest over Newark Bay into the Greenville section of... (more)
The Pocahontas A Roger Puta Photograph
The George Washington A Roger Puta Photograph
A set of Reading Blueliners cross the Schuylkill River entering Manayunk on a Philadelphia Chapter NRHS excursion. The bridge is now a hiking trail.
Santa Fe’s Train 201 behind E unit 81 zips through Fowler, Colo. on its way to Pueblo and on to Denver on April 15, 1967.
