View from the vestibule…Our westbound excursion train is passing Shaffers Crossing Roundhouse, in the left background, and a yard switching crew that includes N&W U30B 8476 and C7F caboose 55755... (more)

An early version of the model, originally NYC, is heading a string of somewhat more drab units. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

A visit to Ryan Ballard. Thanks for the hospitality. RIP

Title: So young and so unloved. Photographed in the dead line, this one will probably never turn another revenue mile. These were always first to go into storage on a downturn, vilified as slow... (more)

Now, the old Tennessee Central was not a high speed line but they did have super elevation on curves, some of it was even in the right direction. In any case this CSX graduate, before that, C&O, ... (more)

Northbound on the River Division.

Southbound on the River Division. The 2858 was one of two U30B'S to have the trademark GE "wings".

PC(NYC)Eastbound at Pence Tower(MJ), crossing C & EI at Momence, Il. Kankakee Belt, Train Order Rule 221(C) is in effect at MJ Terry Norton Photo.

Recently refurbished U-boats (done at South Louisville?) meet SW1500 5004 near south end of Sibert Yard. Two more recent rebuilds are out of frame on the right. Trailing 2508 came out of GE as a... (more)

Sold to Erman-Howell in March, multiple Milwaukee Road U-Boats await scrapping on Chicago's Southeast side. Jim Mirabelli photo.

One of the last runs of the westbound Wabash Cannonball makes a scheduled station stop in Logansport, IN likely in April of 1971, shortly prior to the Cannonball service being discontinued. Kodak ... (more)

Norfolk & Western U30B 8518 idles on a turntable track nest to the three-stall roundhouse in the Baltimore & Ohio yard in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. The N&W bought 110 of 295 total U30B’s prod... (more)

Shore Fast Line heading to Pleasantville on the first trip in getting ready to take over freight operations from Conrail on the AC Line

In the mid 1980’s the colors of the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad came to the rails in the Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna Valley for the first time in over a quarter-century. The Lackawanna ... (more)