The A&W heads into Sanford for a morning of switching. The A&W is an "original" shortline being chartered in the late 1890s to run about 25 miles from Sanford to Lillington NC. In the mo... (more)

Motive power for the thermal Belt Railway (GP10 No. 4601 and SW1 No. 1) basks in the sun in Bostic, NC on a beautiful mid-afternoon in late February.

Thermal Belt's GP10, No. 4601, rests on the siding in Bostic, NC on a cold, breezy night in late February. The locomotive was originally built as a GP9, then later rebuilt into a GP10.

With the day's freight in tow, the NBER 1804 leads the return leg of the Bellefonte-Lock Haven turn through Eagleville, PA.

A quiet Sunday morning at the Morristown engine house finds a recent arrival, Maine Eastern GP10 764, joining sister Morristown & Erie locomotives.

The last pair of Maine Eastern locomotives have arrived on the Morristown & Erie. The units are M420W 3573 and GP10 764. On a rainy afternoon, the 764 joins M&E C424 18 and SW1500 20 in front of t... (more)

The crew of the Grace Mine cleanout train has dropped their empty cars well short of the Elverson Road crossing in Joanna, Pennsylvania, and is now proceeding south to grab lunch at the Joanna Sto... (more)

New Year's night 2016 passes in the small community of Pinetown, NC as CLNA's #8311 rests quietly awaiting its next run to Belhaven. The photographer spent many childhood nights one block from he... (more)

The portion of the former Reading Wilmington & Northern branch between Joanna and Coatesville, Pennsylvania was ripped up in the early 1980’s, but the portion from Birdsboro to Grace Mine was ke... (more)

In a location captured by many photographers of the Reading Company, a Grace mine cleanout train ambles down the Wilmington & Northern branch along the Hay Creek south of Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. ... (more)

Bloomer Line GP10 7549, still with its high hood and long hood forward setup, sits at the Alliance Grain complex west of town with leased LTEX SW1200RS 1206, in a unique purple and yellow paint sc... (more)

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A single passenger awaits an eastbound Keystone Express as a Conrail local switches the M&M-Mars Candy Co. siding. The 7558, originally built by EMD as a GP9 in November of 1955, was numbered 703... (more)

In May 1993, KCS had taken over, but there were still lots of MidSouth units around, with solid sets still fairly common. It appeared that perhaps there was some effort - at least in the early day... (more)