A pair of Conrail SD80MACs mingle with typical Boston Line power, GE C30-7As, at the Selkirk Engine Terminal. CSX units are also present, a foreshadowing of what would come two years later.

Even though New Jersey has had its fair share of drenching rain the last few weeks, the weather has since become unusually hot and dry as the rail grinder works east. Fire danger kept these worker... (more)

The massive GM Renaissance Center provides a backdrop for the routine passage of the Detroit People Mover. The central 73-story building is considered the tallest hotel in the Western Hemisphere.

Both M&E C430s were posed in front of the engine shop on a warm August morning. Other units visible include former TP&W C424 801, former BAR F3 44, an ex-BAR wooden caboose, M&E caboose #4 and, i... (more)

A former Conrail SD38-MT6 slug set (ex-CR 6948 & CR 1127) shoves a long cut of cars over the hump at Selkirk Yard. CSX YN2 paint was creatively adapted to the lines of the MT6.

Three SP AC4400s lead a loaded coal train east out of Tennessee Pass Tunnel. This was one of the more productive trains running over the pass before its closure later in the year. It consisted o... (more)

MMC Hangar Queen
4803 and her sisters are the current "hangar queens" on NJ Transit's roster. On this day all four ex-Amtrak P40DCs were out of service at the MMC for various reasons.... (more)

The Greatest Show on Earth...the Ringling Brothers circus train heads south through the broad curve at Monolith.

Westbound NYS&W road freight SU-99 blasts through a pile of snow left by the plows clearing Mathews Ave. The LLPX SD38-2s time on the NYS&W was short-lived. The lead unit on this train was lease... (more)

VC9, named "Toni Vance" is former SP 1226 and is seen at the VCY shop in Oxnard.

4303 is one of four rebuilt GP40s used by NJ Transit in non-revenue service. Here 4303 is hauling a set of out-of-service Arrow III EMUs northbound on the Northeast Corridor.

The Last U34CH
Morristown & Erie 17 has handed off former NJ Transit U34CH 4172 (wearing it's original EL road number 3372) to the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway at their interchang... (more)

After the Delaware Otsego Corp. (NYS&W) takeover of the Rahway Valley, RV 17 was briefly used on Southern Division locals. WS-1 is about to pull an empty tank car from the Hoboken Paints siding o... (more)

Most of PNRR's eclectic roster can be seen in this view of their yard in Lansdale. This includes a pair of former Conrail C39-8s, a pair of former Canadian National SD40-2Ws (one of which is out ... (more)

A Grande View! Rio Grande power dominates this January 2000 elevated view of the yard at Helper, UT. UP's LJP45 "Dirt Train" local has just arrived back in town and is seen passing a few ... (more)