New Jersey’s fifteen-mile-long Rahway Valley was another short line that took advantage of the ICC incentive per diem boxcar rates of the late 1970’s. By the mid-1980’s, the rules were again... (more)
With more letters in its name than miles in its route, the Lake Erie Franklin and Clarion Railroad joined the per-diem boxcar craze of the late 1970’s. Here one of those cars passes through Alle... (more)
Always somewhat elusive, a Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion coal train loads at the mine at Strattanville, Pennsylvania. Two-thirds of the latter-day LEF&C roster of two SW1500’s and four MP15DC’... (more)