PIFF Coming out of the Nesquehoning Tunnel

Fall foliage, hot dogs over an open fire, trains and more trains. At the end of the day, a good cigar. It don't get much better than that. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

"We don't care if it makes no sense, the front is the place with the F so we're going to run the front first." Evidently early in NS days they were afraid crews might get spoiled by a c... (more)

CR 6815 highballs a westbound manifest through Latrobe, PA. Scanned from a print.

UTAH 6060 at Provo, UT.

Illinois Railway Ottawa to Eola at Yorkville

The popular RBMN NRFF making its way West through Tamaqua.

SD50 No. 6791 leads GE Dash8 40B No. 5070 and Dash8 40CW No. 6144 with 132 empty hoppers climbing the steady 1.75% grade past MG tower - still a part-time open office at this date. MG is located a... (more)

Getting a little TLC in the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern’s Port Clinton Junction Diesel Shop is "SD50-2" 5020. Built by EMD as Baltimore & Ohio SD50 8592, this locomotive became C... (more)

PIFF passes under the Penobscot signal bridge on its journey towards North Reading.

MP 5038 leads a westbound coal train out of Cheyenne, WY in June of 1989.

CNW 7033 leads a stack train out of Fremont, NE with a pair of SP tunnel motors trailing. This was a frequent sight at the time as SP power flooded the merged system - for better or worse. Ektachr... (more)

A former C&NW SD50 leads two Conrail visitors out the Council Bluffs Sub passing Ames, NE. Fuji Astia.

Reading and Northern EMD SD50-2 units 5018 and 5020 have delivered T-1 2102 and its train to Nesquehoning for its 9:00 departure to Pittston. The steam Locomotive and train had been positioned in ... (more)

NS 5436, former Conrail SD50 No. 6766, leads a trio of BNSF Dash9s on a westbound intermodal at the Brickyard crossing on an early October afternoon.