We are standing just north of the Delaware border waiting on the Chessie Steam Special when a local freight passes from the other direction. This is the Baltimore & Ohio's Philadelphia Division, ... (more)

Melancholy look at the Atlantic City station of the former Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines. An ex PC SW1 waits with an RDC. The depot (out of frame) was built in 1964 when the lead to Union S... (more)

A Reading M1sa "Big Dutch Mike" leads an Autumn afternoon westbound on the "platform track" as seen from Camp Meeting Avenue overpass. It's a good bet that this freight stopped to do work at pest... (more)

The joint Southern/Norfolk & Western "Tennessean" heads north after its Lynchburg stop, passing in front of the lens of Charles Knox Freericks' Argus A Anistigmat. The train is being pulled by one... (more)

This is Reading M1sa #1705 - an Anthracite Road Mike. Note the huge Wooten Firebox, designed to ignite anthracite (and culm left over from coal processing ). It is named for inventor John E. Woo... (more)

The Chessie Steam Special races towards Philadlephia behind Reading T1 #2101. Staged in honor of the 1977 Sesquicentennial of the Baltimore & Ohio (founded in 1827), Ross Rowland's 4-8-4 toured t... (more)

Train #45 "The Tennessean" is readied for departure. This train connected with a Pennsylvania train of the same name, then ran Southern to N&W and back to Southern. The Roanoke police officer sitt... (more)

A northbound Southern Railway freight winds its way under the Duke Street Bridge in Alexandria as it nears Potomac Yard. The three locomotives are all high-nosed SD35s (3019, 3013, 3055), part of ... (more)

Southern Knoxville Division local mail train #4 from Knoxville arrives at its final destination(crossing State Street). The train has a single rider coach hidden by the two boxcars in the yard. ... (more)

CKF was visting his late father's hometown of San Diego by train when he grabbed this shot of his ride back to LA, a "San Diegan" powered by F40PH #229, pulling a string of Amfleet (aka cigar tube... (more)

My dad (Charles Knox Freericks) took this picture of my brother and me (Charles Freericks - on the steps) on my favorite engine, Nickel Plate Road S2 Berkshire #759, which had returned to Steamtow... (more)

A Conrail westbound local pulls up to the eastbound high platform. Passengers could make a cross platform change here to train #1812, the "Scoot" to Bayonne, a short lived service that ran from 1... (more)

B23-7 #4680 is heading north, working the industries along Wetmore Road at San Antonio International Airport. This is North Loop Siding on the Missouri Pacific Austin Subdivision. Image was taken... (more)

Illinois Central #3 "The Louisiane" heads through Sardis on a hot summer morning in 1952. E8(A) #4018 was about two years old, having arrived 6/1950. It was the lowest #d E8 on the IC and was sc... (more)

Some things never change... and back in 1981, Reading 2124 was looking about as weather worn as she looked just a year ago. Still, a grand locomotive, and captured here by my father on one of his ... (more)