A southbound Delaware & Hudson manifest exits Belden Hill tunnel under threatening skies.

To most railfans, Lehigh Valley means two things: Camelback engines with Wooton fireboxes, and long trains of anthracite-laden hoppers toiling over the mountains towards New York. The Black Diamo... (more)

LV 301 was one of only two Valley diesels (RS-3 #216 the other) to receive this application of a 4 feet wide yellow band around the entire unit. Photo by Robert Wilt, photo part of my slide co... (more)

After a successful round trip to Philadelphia, Reading 4-8-4 2102 backs the Blue Mountain & Reading excursion toward home rails at Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania. The connection between Conrailâ... (more)

An unmistakable Maine Central caboose punctuates a train leaving Rigby Yard in Portland, Maine. The trainman is striking a pose that would probably be frowned on in today’s safety culture.

The View from Starrucca

A Northbound Delaware & Hudson train, led by three GP38-2’s, one D&H and two Boston & Maine, snake through the curves of the Penn Division at Lanesboro, P... (more)

With the famed Starrucca Viaduct as a backdrop, a Delaware & Hudson “puller job” stands on the Penn Division main line at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. The snow on the rails indicates that the trai... (more)

Wheeling and Lake Erie’s Connellsville to Rook train crosses the Monongahela River in Belle Vernon.

A C420 switches the Delaware & Hudson yard in Hudson, Pennsylvania. The tracks to the left of the station are the D&H main line to Wilkes-Barre. At the other end of the yard to the right was the b... (more)

The head end of a northbound Delaware & Hudson Potomac Yard train passed while under clouds, but the sun came out before the... (more)

Southbound tonnage emerges from Delaware & Hudson’s Belden Hill Tunnel at Tunnel, New York. Four GP39-2’s have matters well in hand.

DH 7620 leads a northbound freight over the D&H Penn Division, and under the Starrucca Viaduct, headed for Oneonta, NY.

Forty-Five Years Ago On this day in 1976, the Erie-Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central, Lehigh & Hudson River, Reading, Penn-Reading Seashore Lines, Buffalo Creek, Niagara Junction, ... (more)

Two C-628's and a U30C are on the head end of a southbound freight that will soon depart Oneonta.

Three GP39-2’s and a C420, of Reading and Lehigh Valley heritage respectively, lead a northbound Delaware & Hudson manifest at Dyes, New York. The Belden Hill tunnel is not far ahead.