Bethlehem Steel’s Grace Mine in Joanna, PA provided countless trainloads of iron ore for the company’s main steelmaking plant in Bethlehem, PA. Joanna was located on the Reading’s Wilmington... (more)

Relic

This wooden Fruit Growers Express reefer and at least one companion were set off on an unused track in Conrail’s Enola Yard. I can’t determine for sure, but the car may h... (more)

Portland Terminal Company, once jointly owned by the Maine Central and the Boston & Maine, later a subsidiary of the Maine Central, served the local industries in Portland, South Portland, and We... (more)

In 1964, the Nickel Plate Road was absorbed into the Norfolk & Western empire. Fourteen years later, many of its cars were still roaming the nation’s rail system. Here a classic offset-side two ... (more)

Unlucky 13: Stacks capped, three B&O GP7's and ten first generation EMD switchers wait to be picked up in Bethlehem, PA. Their presence here indicates that they are more than likely en route to Na... (more)

Brick

Some of my friends have been known to refer to N&W/NS high-hood units as bricks, as they have the profile of a dark, nondescript rectangle. Perhaps the only locomotive more f... (more)

The Pittsburg & Shawmut Brookville turn has finished switching at Ringgold, Pennsylvania, and is continuing toward Mahoning with a train of loads from the mina at Dora, which can be seen above the... (more)

Three of the Delaware & Hudson’s big six-axle U-boats (two U33C’s and one U30C) lead a northbound train through Treichlers, Pennsylvania.

Three-quarters of the Lehigh Valley's GP38AC roster lead eastbound train LV-4 across the Delaware River and into Phillipsburg. Today's consist has 36 cars, including covered hoppers carrying cemen... (more)

Sailing high above the James River, a northbound Southern Railway piggyback train is stretched along the trestle over the James River in Lynchburg, Virginia. Southern’s GP50’s were the only on... (more)

Hot Steel Coming Through!

Cuyahoga Valley SW8 802 pulls a couple of cars of molten steel through the Jones & Laughlin steel mill in Cleveland. The long-gone Clark Avenue bridge, c... (more)

After over three years in mothballs, the majority of Union Pacific's Centennial fleet was reactivated in early 1984. For a little over a year they roamed the system until their final retirement. H... (more)

Clear Sky Above - On Saturday, February 19, 1983, celebrated Amtrak GG1 4935 made what was expected to be its last trip under Pennsy wires, when two Amtrak GP9 “pumpkins” pulled the big electr... (more)

Early morning finds the southbound Orange Blossom Special, with predominately Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac power, rolling through Fairless Junction, Pennsylvania, on SEPTA’s West ... (more)

The Shannopin mine railroad: A trip to photograph the Monongahela Railway yielded a day with the usually-busy Waynesburg Southern side of the MGA dead due to scheduled track work. The only activi... (more)