"Please, sir, get back on the train!" The conductor appears to be quite agitated with the guy in the yellow shirt, who is determined to test the siding's clearance limits in an effort to get the s... (more)

Three Alco’s and a GE wait by the Delaware & Hudson Bevier Street yard office for the next train to go north over Belden Hill.

Hiding in the Hedgerow

Just three and one half years after being repainted in a Pennsylvania Railroad scheme, Amtrak GG1 4935 was retired and placed in storage at Amtrak’s Wilmin... (more)

Westbound Conrail tonnage enters the eastern end of the former Reading East Penn branch at East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. Several remnants of the Reading days are still evident in this 1984 sce... (more)

The westbound Rio Grande Zephyr is making track speed as it approaches Newcastle, Colorado.

After returning from an excursion to Lackawaxen, the Stourbridge Line’s ex-BAR BL2 returns to Honesdale as the brakeman flags the limited-visibility crossing. A Susquehanna RS3, the currently-as... (more)

For over thirty years, before the Reading & Northern came to town, George Hart’s Rail Tours, Inc. provided excursions out of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Here passengers prepare to board a train pu... (more)

Baby Boat

In 1975, the Maine Central went shopping for its first new power in nine years, and chose ten of GE’s U18B “baby boats”. With their unique 8-cylinder FDL engines, t... (more)

New Jersey DOT 4876, the GG1 that lead a runaway train into Washington Union Station, waits in South Amboy, New Jersey for a train from the Jersey shore to arrive. After the train arrives, the E u... (more)

SEPTA FP7’s 4372 and 4371 (ex-Reading 902 and 900, respectively) are seen in storage in the yard at Wayne Junction, Pennsylvania. A third FP7, SEPTA 4373 (ex-Reading 903) is stored in Reading, P... (more)

With storms brewing near the Book Cliffs, a Rio Grande manifest rolls across the desert near Grassy, Utah.

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local, WJAL-12, pulls a cut of empty hoppers from the Hercules Cement mill in Stockertown, Pennsylvania.

Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer SW1200 105 and NW2 103 work the sidings serving the Harvest States Cooperatives grain elevator in Superior, Wisconsin. The LST&T, originally jointly owned by the ... (more)

The Delaware Otsego leased the Susquehanna in 1980, and ended up acquiring it outright in 1982. Soon thereafter, motive power reassignments started to happen. The Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley ... (more)

The Prince Brothers General Store closed its doors in 1984, ending 112 years of continuous operation. Here a CSX power move rolls past the store on October 11, 1986, the same year that it was plac... (more)