Fairly new SD40-2 and ex-PRR SD45 hang onto an ex-HN caboose for the ride down the hill as they get going past MO tower.
ex- PC/PRR SD35 is still pulling but the ex-EL SD45 is down for the count as the train stalls.
A pair of brand new Turboliners, not yet in revenue service, bracket the "pointless arrow" on the SDP40F that's the outbound power for the evening's Lake Shore Limited.
Old power. New paint.
Alpha and Omega. The very first day of the American Freedom Train and the last weekend of Penn Central before Amtrak takes over the NEC. "ATF 1" aka RDG T1 2101 leads a long train over the bridg... (more)
Looking sharp in the afternoon sun, an ex-LV C420 in fairly fresh D&H paint peaks out of the enginehouse at Mechanicville. Sister C420, still in Cornell Red, and ex-RDG GP39-2 wait outside.
Shark burbles through a rock cut on the way back from Rutland to Whitehall.
"Chickenwire" F3 suns itself
GG-1 rescues E60CP
One of the first in the Reading Company Technical and Historical Society's collection. Shown here during an open house at Reading Shops and running on the Blue Mountain and Reading.
An SD45 still with it's "L" cab window trundles by with and SD40-2.
Departing