Reading & Northern’s mountain job pauses next to the yard office in St. Nicholas, Pennsylvania.

Reading & Northern’s mountain job rolls into St. Nicholas, Pennsylvania. After a brief stop at the yard office for some administrative work, it will continue east toward Tamaqua.

Reading & Northern’s mountain job approaches St. Nicholas at Gilberton, Pennsylvania.

A couple of well-weathered switchers work within the Jones & Laughlin Steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio. The GE center cab unit is unidentified, while the S2 is in the scheme of defunct Youngstown She... (more)

Jones & Laughlin Steel S2 145 mover some empty cars around one of several steel mills in Cleveland, Ohio.

When Guilford jettisoned the Delaware & Hudson, the D&H was left woefully short of reliable power. The court-appointed operator, New York, Susquehanna & Western, barely had enough power to operate... (more)

Four-month-old New-York Susquehanna & Western B40-8 4006 still looks factory-fresh leading a northbound Delaware & Hudson train approaching the Belden Hill bore at Tunnel, New York. I normally avo... (more)

A southbound Delaware & Hudson manifest emerges from Belden Hull Tunnel into the fall colors of New York’s Southern Tier.

Two of Delaware & Hudson’s ex-Lehigh Valley GP38-2’s, in two different numbering series thanks to Guilford’s never-ending locomotive shuffle, lead a southbound train at Harpursville, New Yor... (more)

The Susquehanna’s directed operation of the Delaware & Hudson added to the rainbow of the power leading D&H trains. Here a D&H GP39-2 still in Reading colors leads a D&H GP38-2 in Guilford color... (more)

Having crested Belden Hill, a southbound Delaware & Hudson train emerges from the bore at Tunnel, New York. A Susquehanna B40-8 and a National Railway Leasing SDP45 can ease up for the descent int... (more)

A Susquehanna B40-8 and a National Railway Leasing SDP45 lead a southbound Delaware & Hudson train over the high bridge at Harpursville, New York.

Coal empties from the north are Roanoke-bound crossing the Potomac River from Maryland to Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In typical Norfolk & Western fashion, an SD40-2 leads the train long hood fo... (more)

Freight Cars, Freight Cars, Everywhere

There’s a lot to see in this November 19, 1976 view looking across Conrail’s yard in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Beside an excellent cross s... (more)

Lamoille Valley RS3m 7805 moves some snow while travelling eastward at Miles Pond, Vermont.