A pair of year-old EMD SDP45s blast upgrade with empty autoracks nearing the old iron bridge at Shin Hollow near Huguenot, New York. This was once triple track, which at some point was reduced ... (more)

On a hazy summer evening, several GP7s showed up in Port Jervis still wearing the post-merger black and "light imitation gold" paint. These former Erie units lacked dynamic brakes. Th... (more)

We're at the Singer crossovers on the Norfolk and Western mainline, west of Roanoke. High short hood C628 1115 leads four other assorted units on a westbound manifest.

We are at or near the highest point (elev. 1676') on the Jersey Central (CNJ). The EMD SD35s with a westbound freight have just met a Lehigh Valley eastbound, and are beginning the steep descent... (more)

It's a beautiful summer day in the Communipaw freight yards. Central Railroad Company of New Jersey had leased a group of Fairbanks-Morse switchers from the Baltimore & Ohio, one of which basks in... (more)

A typically grimy Clinchfield EMD F7 leads a southbound freight train over a low timber trestle. This location is between Wakenva and Trammel, north of Dante in far western Virginia.

N&W 852 is a blue GP9. N&W 1528 is a black SD35.

Mixed Train on the Chesapeake and Ohio. The Hot Springs Mixed, train 310, pauses at the Covington, Virginia station while returning to Clifton Forge. GP7 5894 has just one coach and a caboose on t... (more)

There's no place like home! Penn Central N9E transfer caboose (a.k.a. cabin car). Wellsboro Junction, PA (former New York Central branch).

Somewhere on the Jersey Central, destination Jim Thorpe, PA. The low rail joint evident here was unfortunately very common on the bankrupt northeastern railroads. At the apparent speed here, the p... (more)

A Penn Central westbound freight rolls slowly to a meet with the sad little 3-car passenger train from Buffalo, NY.

Wellsville, Addison & Galeton dead line, July, 1970. General Electric 132-ton centercabs 1800 and 1500 sit among the weeds near the railroad's shop in Galeton, PA. The former Western Pacific E... (more)

Penn Central was less than a year old (and still solvent!) in December of 1968. A pair of GE E44 electrics still in PRR paint have brought a manifest over Newark Bay into the Greenville section of... (more)

PRR GG1s and B1s, Queens, 1964. Sunnyside Yard was (and still is) the coach yard serving Manhattan's Penn Station. That day's quest was the legendary DD1 side-rod electric, which didn't seem to... (more)

The morning fog has not yet burned off as a bluebonnet F7 leads a sizable train on one of Santa Fe's many Kansas branchlines. Scanned from High Speed Ektachrome.