This is PRR's daily local, S71, which ran from Northumberland to Selinsgrove Jct., then out the Selinsgrove Secondary to the PP&L power plant in Shamokin Dam, PA. (coal loads). It then continued ... (more)

NYS&W C430 was leaving a healthy dose of Alco smoke in its wake as it crossed the Chenango River at Chenango Bridge, NY on June 19, 1984.

NYS&W (former FJ&G) No. 100 was switching at Sangerfield, NY on Sept. 30, 1983. I'll let the diesel purists figure this one out. The tall cab window on the front of the cab and the fuel fill on ... (more)

A northbound NYS&W local freight was working a feed mill at Norwich, NY on May 13, 1983 with C430 No. 3000. If I recall correctly, at this time, this train working the Utica line went on duty at ... (more)

A NYS&W local freight was hustling north near Greene, NY on May 13, 1983 with C430 No. 3000.

A northbound NYS&W local freight does some switching at Sherburne, NY on May 12, 1983 with C430 No. 3000.

Chesapeake Western caboose No. 1 trails a local freight as it makes it way west at Weyers Cave, VA on April 21, 1980.

A westbound Chesapeake Western local freight was passing through Weyers Cave, VA on April 21, 1980. The former CHW station can be seen in the distance near the caboose. The small feed mill was l... (more)

I remember from someplace the statement "If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." That is how I felt on April 21, 1980. With three T6s in Harrisonburg, two Chesapeake Western and on... (more)

A southbound Conrail local freight crawls over the walkway to a house south of Queen, PA on October 1, 1982 with NW2 No. 9185.

A southbound Conrail local freight slowly ambled along on the Bedford Secondary south of Queen, PA on October 1, 1982 with NW2 No. 9158. The Bedford Secondary would be sold and become today's Eve... (more)

An old Chevrolet school bus, turned camper, stands guard as a CSX local freight couples up after doing some local work in Danville, IL on Sept. 8, 1996.

The brakeman had dismounted and was throwing the switch for C&O's eastbound Piedmont West End Local to enter the siding at Beaverdam, VA, on March 3, 1984, to do some local work. Empty covered ho... (more)

We are looking across the RF&P main line at Doswell, VA on a hot, humid July, 1982 day as the C&O Richmond Turnaround Local came around the Wye Track with GP39 No. 3909. The signal mast to the le... (more)

I have always had a thing about the tunnel portals on C&O's Fort Spring Tunnel in Fort Spring, WV. Constructed in 1946-1947, to me they have a definite "art deco" look. Although not remote by an... (more)