The daily Allentown-Atlanta manifest freight heads west through the Lebanon Valley on the NS Harrisburg Line.

The 425 pauses while the trainman bends the iron from the Tremont Branch to the Minersville Branch.

Sunset on the old NEC- doubleheaded GG1s, steam-heated Heritage cars, wooden ties, freight cars on the sidetrack, a PRR gooseneck lamp, and a Penn Central station sign.

A relatively clean E-60, sans windshield grilles, heads north with "The Murray Hill." The train is on a 4-hour schedule from DC to New York, compared to the approximate 3-1/2 hour sched... (more)

The old NEC, before the improvement project was implemented- "The Betsy Ross," southbound at Elkton. No. 167 was on a 4 hr 3 min schedule, New York to Washington.

The 2nd-to-last E-44 (built July, 1963) heads west on the Enola Branch, with a friendly wave from the fireman. Note the graffiti-free manifest trailing behind. Conrail will rebuild this line a y... (more)

New Year's Eve at Rockville with an eastbound Conrail freight, pre-drone days. You can see the original 1849 bridge alignment above the 2nd batch of tank cars.

In the last year of GG1-powered freight operations, the 4886 rolls south along the driftwood-littered Port Road. No. 4886 was built for the PRR in March of 1939 by Altoona-GE, 40 years prior to t... (more)

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)

PRR K4s No. 1361 has brought a short train of three cars down from Altoona, and is running around its train for the return trip. By this time, the position light signals were gone, but the high i... (more)

PRR K4s No. 1361 has a respectable 8 cars in tow, crossing over at ROSE with a Bellefonte-Altoona excursion.

Train time at Paoli, 1975, as the Kansas City-bound "National Limited" slows to a halt. This train, which also served Columbus, Indianapolis, and St. Louis, was discontinued in 1979.

A southbound Metroliner is rocketing over the 4-lane grade crossing in Aberdeen; speed here was usually between 105-110 mph. No. 813 is still in service, as cab-control car 9646.

Bygone days on the NEC- wood ties, GG1-powered passenger trains of heritage cars, and rubberized grade crossings.

A long southbound train of heritage equipment behind a "bloody-nose" GG-1 rumbles into 30th Street on the old PRR jointed rail. The locomotive is one of the seven GG-1s painted in Amtra... (more)