This EMD FT was wrecked in a collision with another train near Tobyhanna, PA on July 15, 1962. A loaded coal hopper came down right on top of the cab. A cutting torch specialist was called in to e... (more)

A mainline train apparently had some setouts or pickups along an industrial track here, and at least three units derailed. The RS-11 near the crane has been re-railed, and the C420 at left is next... (more)

A "chicken-wire" F3 about to depart Weehawken.

Four routes from Mountain Top (summit of the grade) in Solomon Gap, PA, August, 1970. Five Lehigh Valley SW8 "pups" roll an unexpected westbound downgrade with an oversize load. They are utiliz... (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.

Nickel Plate Road Berkshire #759 rolls an excursion downgrade on historic Starrucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. The train will spend the night in Binghamton, New York, and return the next ... (more)

So much has changed here since PRR (Penn Central) E-44 "Brick" 4435 rolled auto racks northward at Adams Station. The freight motors, the freight trains, the open fields, even the auto assembly pl... (more)

An unexpected quintet of LV SW8s rolls downgrade on the weed-grown LV Mountain Cut Off toward Laurel Run and Coxton. The oversize load visible beyond the SW8s was probably too large for Jersey Cen... (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)

Erie Lackawanna inspection train. Railroad officials have stepped off their special train to observe westbound freight ES-99 on the "New Connection" track at Lake Junction. ES-99 was a CNJ-EL run... (more)

Colorful Penn Central! A GP30 with the red P variation slowly starts its train westward, as another train pulls eastward onto the Rockville Bridge

A weathered Reading Fairbanks-Morse Trainmaster works in Rutherford Yard, near Harrisburg. Kodachrome original.

Everyday power, 1963. Elizabeth, New Jersey was a great train-watching spot, with the Pennsylvania Railroad main above, and the Jersey Central main below. The Jersey Central had 13 Trainmasters, a... (more)

An Alco helper trio (C420, RS-18, C420) drifts downgrade back to Packerton Yards on a damp March day. Scrappers had nearly finished removing the Jersey Central mainline tracks at left. All Jers... (more)

GG-1's on freight, coming and going! The icing on the cake was the trailing motor on the right- the unique "Old Rivets" #4800.