Saturday morning: Steamtown comes alive!

Just a thought: Wouldn't this former Delaware & Hudson RS-3 and one or two others rostered on the Delaware Lackawanna be a treat leading next Carbondale excursion in August?

CNJ heritage RS-3 sits among corporate colors.

Amtrak RS3 116 leads the wire train through North Elizabeth, NJ, on its way to or from a catenary maintenance job. Amtrak acquired 45 Penn Central RS3s of PRR, NYC, and NH ancestry in 1976 for yar... (more)

Delaware & Hudson Alco RS-2 4024 is about to pickup it's southbound train 34 the Laurentian at Canadian Pacific's Windsor Station for the all day D&H trip to Albany and then on by the New York Ce... (more)

Penn Central was in no hurry to spend money on repainting commuter equipment, so in September 1968 this evening rush hour train train that was ready to leave Boston's South Station for Framingham ... (more)

LS&I 1604 switches Munising, MI in August of 1965. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.

LS&I 1608 switches Munising, MI in August of 1966. I wonder who Tiger Lady is? Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.

GBW 308 (an Alco RS-3 rebuilt as a RS-3m or RS-20) arrives at Kewaunee, WI on a relatively snow free day in January of 1980. Known as the Boat Train, the Alco's will soon be switching the yard and... (more)

Action starts at Bridge 60.

1963 may not be the right date but the C&NW tore down the old round house and began to build a new diesel facility at Butler yard just north of where the old round house was. Here the service trac... (more)

Whoever saw an RS-3 so clean?

A pair of Rock Island RS3s thunk across the diamond at Pullman Junction on the South Side of Chicago with a transfer run back in 1969. This was a great place for train-watching for this East Coast... (more)

Wearing the blue dip paint job that replaced its original maroon and yellow, Boston & Maine RS3 1511 heads up a short local freight westbound on the mainline at Ayer, MA, on a fall afternoon.

In the predawn darkness, Boston & Maine Alco and EMD power awaits the morning's assignments at the Westboro (West Lebanon, NH) engine terminal located across the Connecticut River from White River... (more)