"Old Rivets" at twilight, literally and figuratively, in her star-spangled US Bicentennial garb, southbound at 60-per with a Truc-Train. The engineer gives a hearty wave from the cab of... (more)

A NY&LB train is southbound thru North Elizabeth with PC4876 on the point. The station shelter and milepost are relics from the Pennsylvania RR era. Date is approximate.

Doubleheaded GG-1s with 1935-built No. 4838 in the lead are northbound through Aberdeen with a mixed freight. Note the cut of piggyback cars on the head end.

Penn Central 4876 rests between runs at South Amboy. This was one of the thirteen GG-1's assigned to and leased by New Jersey Transit, and operated until 1983. 4876 is well known for being the loc... (more)

The Pennsylvania Railroad's No. 4890 (Altoona-GE, March, 1940) was looking pretty good here at the B&O Museum in 1991. Author Karl R. Zimmermann, in his book "The Remarkable GG1" said of this pai... (more)

Within a couple days of Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, PC began running GG1s in former NH electric territory between Penn Station and New Haven, CT. Two generations of electrics met as ... (more)

Doubleheaded Penn Central GG1s lead autoracks eastbound through Earnest Yard in Norristown, PA, on a misty spring day.

The Kansas City bound National Limited is crossing a barren early spring Lancaster County landscape on its way to Harrisburg for an engine change to diesels. 33-year old No. 917 (PRR 4919, Altoon... (more)

A GG1 in the woods! At the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, there are 2 former Pennsylvania Railroad GG1s stored at Cooperstown Junction, NY. Unit 4917 (ex-Amtrak 4934) is seen sitting on ... (more)

A solo Penn Central GG1 handles a southbound freight at Colonia, NJ, back when electric powered freight was still the rule on the PRR end of the Northeast Corridor and these classic beasts were an... (more)

The Washington Section of the Broadway Limited is passing through the beautiful farming country west of Lancaster in the summer of 1977. No. 916 was built by Altoona/GE in July, 1942 as the PRR 4... (more)

Late on a summer afternoon, a pair of classic GG1s march into the station at New Haven, CT, with an Amtrak train from Washington. They still wear Penn Central paint, but Amtrak had become their ow... (more)

Still proudly wearing its Pennsylvania keystone, GG1 4891 has just taken over Penn Central Boston-Washington train 175, the Patriot, from the pair of E8s that had brought it as far as New Haven, C... (more)

41 years after her birth, the 4838 is still being trusted to pull the hottest freight. She's temporarily paused here for track work, waiting for a westbound Silverliner to pass, to allow her to c... (more)

We were teenage railfans; my high school buddy is shooting from behind Dad's '64 Ford Fairlane and I'm in the middle of a barren cornfield, lensing the cleanest Platinum Mist GG-1 that we ever saw... (more)