TH&B GP7 73, GP9 401 and another Geep sit at Penn Central's Frontier yard. This was a nice bit of color in the midst of PC black-and-white.
Three Burlington E7 units are on the MORNING ZEPHYR for Minneapolis from a very busy Union Station. The Atlantic Coast Line E7 is backing with PRR's SOUTH WIND.
One of NYC's first E7 units is paired with an E7B on the MICHIGAN inbound to Chicago. This unit and 4003 were delivered new in black with simple white striping which didn't last. The two units als... (more)
Famous class J 611 whistles for the Davis Rd. crossing at Bonsack while rolling downgrade with the Southern Ry. TENNESSEAN. The Blue Ridge Parkway now crosses over the railroad at this spot.
Two of the Lehigh Valley's newer Alco RS-11 units are teamed with EMD F units on a westbound freight at Bethlehem.
NYO&W FT units sit with a heater car at Erie's Croxton Yard. My grandmother lived at the Oneida Community Mansion in the late 1940s and I recall O&W diesel-powered freights running right next to t... (more)
Lehigh Valley Alco FA-2 units sit next to Bethlehem tower under the Hill-to-Hill bridge with westbound freight.
N&W Y6 2142 leaves Blue Ridge with the eastbound local freight after switching the stone crusher there.
Alco PA-1 853 now belongs to Erie-Lackawanna but still wears Erie green, its second color scheme. This was a Saturday morning and this unit and several RS-3 units were idle in the small yard.
The sunlight was dramatic and the hills very lush as Y6a 2158 pushes the afternoon freight headed by two other Y6 locomotives.
Reading 4-8-4 2109 is at the front of a line of stored T-1 class engines at Reading. There were still 20 of the husky 4-8-4s on the roster at this date and several had been used as temporary indus... (more)
ATSF A-B-B-A F3 units are pulling the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF away from Joliet.
N&W Y6a 1258 and class A 1221 have crested the Blue Ridge grade with eastbound coal and are rolling downgrade at Villamont in the morning.
We paid a brief visit to the Virginian Railway engine terminal below Mill Mountain after spending the day on the N&W.
Two E8 units are ready to depart with tr. 6, LAKE CITIES. The lead unit is a former DL&W unit and the trailing E8, 830, belonged to the Erie.
