Dusk on a hot summer evening. A Bruce Van Sant original Kodachrome slide form my collection.

A quartet of former MARC engines sit in storage awaiting an uncertain fate. These engines were purchased by MPI many years ago and have been sitting long enough for moss to start growing on them. ... (more)

Conductors Mike and Alicia prepare #226 for another switching move.

EMD/ASEA's one-of-a-kind 10,000 hp GM10B heads off into the sunset, with a westbound on the Enola Branch. The train is about to pass under the 1930-built Art Deco Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge, wh... (more)

The incredible 10,000 hp GM10B is awaiting a crew to take it west in the spring of 1978. This 197-ton, 73'-4" long giant rode on B-B-B trucks with 50" drivers. Never duplicated, it was... (more)

E-44 No. 4405, in Conrail's initial "minimalist" paint scheme with no markings except cab numerals, leads the 4445, which has somehow survived with its yellow Pennsy cab numerals intact ... (more)

Two GG1-powered freights meet (they're both moving) in front of the 1877-built PRR station. No. 4811 was outshopped by GE in July, 1935, 42 years before this photo.

Someone had scrawled "Liz" on the nose of No. 4865, seen here as it waits on a crew with sister G No. 4856 at the head end of an intermodal train. The 4865 still retains its PRR-style n... (more)

An E44-powered freight slowly moves off the Columbia Branch, crossing Walnut Street and passing the 1877-built PRR station. Note the high trolley wire within the terminal area. No. 4421 was buil... (more)

Got it! The engineer of an eastbound E33-powered freight grabs orders from the operator at COLA. The now-preserved CR 4604 (as VGN 135 in Roanoke, VA) is near the end of its operating days, with... (more)

Two E-44s in the long-hood forward mode are eastbound under the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge, catching the sun's last rays on a cold winter's day. No. 4422 was built by GE for the PRR in October,... (more)

Two E44s are heading west through COLA Interlocking in the long-hood forward mode, wearing Conrail's "minimalist" paint scheme with no markings except the cab numerals. No. 4454 was bui... (more)

The brakeman is riding the front platform of an ex-Pennsy SW9 built in April, 1953 (PRR 8542) as it trundles into town off the Columbia Branch from Lancaster.

135 mm telephoto view of the mighty 10,000 hp EMD-ASEA GM10B, sitting silently in Manor Siding, waiting for a crew to take the train west.

An ex-EL U25B smokes up the catenary after a crew change, as the relief fireman gets in a few last words with his fellow employees waiting on a taxi. No. 2573 was built by GE for the Erie-Lackawa... (more)