A pair of SD40-2 "snappers" are coupled ahead of the road power on Conrail Mail 9 (Morrisville, PA-Chicago) as the train rounds the most famous bend in railroading at Horseshoe Curve. Hi... (more)

LMS 724, one of the GE lease units painted for Big Blue, drops downgrade past the westward home signals for MG on an autumn afternoon. STES (Sterling, MI to Harrington, DE) has auto parts for Newa... (more)

A Bruce Van Sant original Kodachrome slide from my collection

A Bruce Van Sant original Kodachrome slide from my collection

What we have here is a discouraging matter of timing in that the 6406, a train of empty PPLX hoppers, had stalled at MG and had to await rescue helpers to come up from Altoona to shove. It got mov... (more)

It's a chilly morning on the mountain as symbol PIMO for Morrisville, PA eases downgrade just past the westward home signals for MG. The 135 car tonnage outfit had five locomotives on the point pl... (more)

In the waning light of an autumn afternoon, a westbound manifest comes 'round the bend into Horseshoe Curve at the now defunct 2416/2417 signal bridge.

EL 2573 leads NY84 at Amolamink,PA, just prior to derailing several miles later, May 27, 1976.

CR 7738 & CR 6389 lead a westbound manifest freight over the curved stone arch bridge crossing the Little Juniata River. In view are two ex-ATSF high cube box cars acquired by Conrail.

CR 6428, CR 3673 GP35 (ex-EL 2567), & CR 6266 SD40 (retaining its PC 6266 number) lead this westbound trailer-van train up the grade at Slope. The old overpass at 241/2 Street was still in service... (more)

A manifest freight heads west with CR stenciled ex-EL 3680 leading. The loaded PPLX coal train was stopped at CP Gray on the controlled siding.

On a hot and humid July afternoon the 5540 East is crossing over at Port interlocking, a short distance west of the town of Newport. The track in the foreground is the old main line that went righ... (more)

An Original, Three Patches, and a Repaint

EMD power is in abundance as a Penn Central SD40 teams up with a patched Conrail SDP45 and a patched SD40 to lead an empty hopper train in... (more)

An SD40 and two SD40-2’s lead a westbound Conrail manifest into Reading Pennsylvania on the former Reading main line. The lead unit is passing the former Reading Brewing Company brewery, which clo... (more)

An early Conrail repaint, SD40 6317, leads a Jersey Central GP9 and a patched Erie-Lackawanna SD45 westbound out of Allentown yard. This location is now known as CP Ham.