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.

Never to be repeated- a Conrail local heads out the Cornwall Secondary with a carload of newsprint for the "Lebanon Daily News." This line is now a rail-trail.

An ex-Reading MP15 (RDG 2774) switches the old San Giorgio spaghetti factory on what old-timers in Lebanon called the "Belt Line." This line has been removed; the tracks headed north on... (more)

Two Conrail GP10s lead a load of coil cars bound for Alcoa Aluminum, passing the old mill at Midway, as seen from the Rocherty Road overpass. The train is crossing over from the old Cornwall Rail... (more)

Where's the rails? The double-tracked electrified Columbia Branch has almost sunk into the ground by the late 70s, as a short local heads upgrade through the weeds to Lancaster.

Conrail is just two weeks old as a Penn Central GP38 leads a westbound local freight by the track gang near the Eby Chickies Road crossing. The 7841 was built in May of 1970 and ended up on the B... (more)

Two faded CF7s, a few years removed from tourist line service, are pulling a freight with the CNJ 113 dead-in-tow. The 113 was headed to its new home in Minersville, where it was eventually resto... (more)

Twilight along the old Reading & Columbia Railroad, which opened for service during the Civil War, connecting Reading with the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal at Columbia. The old American House ... (more)

A single passenger awaits an eastbound Keystone Express as a Conrail local switches the M&M-Mars Candy Co. siding. The 7558, originally built by EMD as a GP9 in November of 1955, was numbered 703... (more)

An N-11E transfer caboose, still in its original Penn Central Deepwater Green paint scheme is westbound out of Lancaster, having just come off the Columbia Branch. The crewman on the leading plat... (more)

Wearing the classic blue and gray Eagle passenger scheme, Missouri Pacific GP7’s 186 and 221 hustle a local freight east towards Herrington on the Kansas City-Pueblo main line, MP’s westernmo... (more)

A GP9 still in its Penn Central paint scheme heads east through Lancaster's station on the center main line tracks. Today, the two center tracks are gone, but the two platform tracks have been up... (more)

An afternoon CSX local works in the CSX yard in West Springfield, MA.

Those accustomed to Rock Island in maroon or red were startled in 1975 when the road’s new president John Ingram started painting cars and locomotives in white and blue. But Ingram had come out ... (more)

Just three weeks out of the Capital Rebuild Program at Silvis shops, new image GP7 4517 ambles through the old riverfront town of Peru, Illinois, in the historic heart of the Rock Island. Rails we... (more)