Smoke oozes from Delaware & Hudson’s Belden Hill Tunnel after a southbound train’s power emerges from it. Four EMD’s and an Alco can now ease down the grade to Binghamton.

After pushing a northbound Delaware & Hudson train up the storied Belden Hill grade, three Alcos depart the south portal area of the tunnel. The signals indicate that the train is well on its way ... (more)

Southbound tonnage emerges from Delaware & Hudson’s Belden Hill Tunnel at Tunnel, New York. Four GP39-2’s have matters well in hand.

Big Boat on Belden Hill

One of the Delaware & Hudson’s U33C’s leads four Alco’s on what appears to be a northbound “salt train” that originated on the Genesee & Wyoming. ... (more)

Stormy Return 2

As Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 611 approached its destination in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, the skies were foreboding. About a minute after this scene, the first of sev... (more)

Stormy Return

After Norfolk & Western 611’s successful visit to Strasburg in 2019, it seemed logical that a return was likely. Getting it back to Pennsylvania became a stormy jou... (more)

The presence of a Conrail SW7 and NW2 in electrified territory was not unusual – it commonly occurred in electrified lines of Pennsylvania, New York Central, New Haven, and Lackawanna lineage. T... (more)

Four years into Conrail’s existence, the engine terminal in Reading, Pennsylvania was still frequented by former Reading switchers in Reading paint. Here an SW900 is in the company of two SW1001... (more)

Did you ever wonder who so many concrete coaling towers remain in place, straddling busy main lines long after steam has disappeared from the rails? These structures were built from yards and yard... (more)

In what looks like a much more recent scene from the Reading & Northern, two of Conrail’s ex-Reading MP15’s spend the weekend in West Cressona, Pennsylvania.

Strasburg 2-10-0 90 meets the sunrise while passing the Caboose Motel outside Strasburg.

A GP38 and two C430’s lead an empty ore train into Conrail’s yard in Mingo Junction Ohio. In the background, an eastbound Norfolk & Western train is passing in front of the Wheeling-Pittsburgh... (more)

Conrail train WHRE-10 approaches the Creamery Road crossing in Reinholds, Pennsylvania. Google Maps indicated that the house to the right is now a pile of rubble.

December has taken away much of the foliage in Reinholds, Pennsylvania, revealing the vine-covered stone water tank base. Conrail train WHRE-10 does not need to stop as many of its steam-powered p... (more)

Probably no strangers to this line, two former Reading MP15’s lead Conrail local WHRE-10 through Reinholds, Pennsylvania. The building on the right is an 1863 hotel built by Col. Jesse Reinhold ... (more)