Angelina & Neches River's appropriately-numbered SW1500 works across the diamond in Lufkin, TX while the crew handles interchange with UP. The train is actually on UP's Lufkin Sub, while the trac... (more)

NYS&W WSPX heads in the clear on the Limecrest Industrial Track at "LIME" (MP 63) in Sparta, NJ. The westbound excursion will meet train 258 here before proceeding west.

Susquehanna ran a lot of excursions over the years, particularly after the line over Sparta Mountain was reopened in the mid-80s. You could argue that the excursion era peaked when a pair of form... (more)

M&E 18 has completed an interchange run to the NYS&W at Passaic Junction to pick up a group of former CP Rail C424s as well as Susquehanna RDC M-1. This unusual consist is seen shortly after depa... (more)

The hottest train on Conrail's River Line was TVLA. Scheduled to depart North Bergen at 7:30am, it was usually through CP 5 before 8:00am, and was carded to be interchanged directly to the Santa ... (more)

Conrail TV-556 gets underway after a crew change at Selkirk Yard. Southern Pacific power was common on this once-per-week double stack train, but the trailing Santa Fe B36-7 was a nice bonus on a... (more)

An "almost A-B-A" set of Santa Fe GP60s winds around Tehachapi Loop. Things are not quite as they may seem. The GP60 trio is actually in helper service, so at this point they are assis... (more)

A pair of year old Southern Pacific AC4400WCs leads a westbound freight downgrade around Tehachapi Loop. The cleanliness of the GEs and a lack of graffiti on the freight cars dates this photo.

SP 7851 leads a northbound at Valley Jct. in Sauget, IL on Union Pacific's Chester Sub. This Southern Pacific train, which consisted of a little bit of everything (intermodal, auto-racks, manifes... (more)

A pair of Southern Pacific AC4400s send a bit of smoke skyward while exiting the east end of the passing siding at Avondale, CO on BNSF's Pueblo Sub. In another 10 or so miles this loaded coal tr... (more)

SU-99 heads west along NJ 23 in Oak Ridge, NJ on a gloomy winter day. The LLPX SD38-2s sounded great under load. You can tell from the exhaust that this consist was working hard while climbing t... (more)

A pair of SD50s lead Conrail SEAL south through Ridgefield Park. The second unit had recently been repainted into the then-current Conrail paint scheme with a white sill stripe. Those box cars o... (more)

NYS&W HAN-2X is nearing the end of it's run as it passes through Ridgefield Park, NJ. The typical procedure at the time was to cut the road power off and have a local WS crew shove the entire con... (more)

A pair of CSX Dash 8s rest at the East End of Conrail's Oak Island Yard. This power would have brought the loaded Tropicana Orange Juice Train east earlier in the morning. The units will layover... (more)

The day after Thanksgiving 29-plus years ago (as of the date this image was posted), a group of us took a run down to "91 Bay", Conrail's locomotive service facility in Oak Island Yard t... (more)