Ford vs. GM A pair of crew members look on from their Ford pickup as a couple of larger GM products get a load of black diamonds on the move. This is the second section of a Pennsylv... (more)

An elder Norfolk and Western heritage locomotive. One of the 'Lost Engines of Roanoke', the 1151 is now part of the Virginia Museum of Transportation's collection. In the background is the east en... (more)

A modern day Alpha-Jet? Not quite, but it is an AVR train running on the W&LE, via their former N&W route, which was built by the P&WV. Then lets not forg... (more)

A veteran EMD operated by Three Rivers Marine and Rail Co. pulls a pair of former Norfolk and Western Pullman Standard 4740 cuft covered hoppers up the Monessen Southwestern's former trestle in Be... (more)

Double Vision. Western Maryland's first GP9, the 25, was also the first to receive a chop nose, and as a result was the only GP9 or 7 on the roster to feature a two piece center wind... (more)

A pair of rebuilt GP50's sit with what will be the next morning's C42 local, while to the right is a sea of locomotives. The 6304 is at the end of seven helper sets, while further right are the li... (more)

Bingo night in Romney? Certainly enough old timers in one spot to get the notion. From left to right is freshly repainted B&O(PEX) 722 (built as B&LE 722 in 9/1952), C&O(SBVR) 8016 (built as CRR 8... (more)

Bay window caboose in Erie Lackawanna paint showed up with a work train. While looking through an old issue of Railpace I found that the caboose was painted and as far as I know still owned by the... (more)

The 104 rolls off Ten Acre bridge light on its way to the wire mill to do some switching after a fresh coating of snow.

The 1000 was built in May of 1968 as Erie Lackawanna 3632, the unit was one of two units on the roster to wear Bicentennial colors for the EL. Retired as Conrail 6097 in 1986 it subsequently becam... (more)

The 104 sits quietly in the NS/CBL interchange yard. One axle dropped into the gauge, the venerable SW7 will spend the night here rather than tucked inside the Black Lick shop, before being re-rai... (more)

Some early morning fog lingers in the valley as a trio of MP15's trundle down into the bowels of the ET Works. They will emerge later in the day with a load of slabs bound for the Irvin works furt... (more)

Normally coming out to play only in the morning, shooting the Black Lick at night is a bit of a challenge. However, taking a look at the front truck on the 104 will provide some insight as to how ... (more)

Five buttheads shove a train load of coke up the Munhall Branch ramp, through J Interlocking, and on to the Union's Port Perry bridge. The train originated at US Steel's Clairton coke plant and ha... (more)

End of the road. The shops which they called home, the birthplace of thousands upon thousands of flatcars, hoppers and gondolas, the famed Johnstown Car Shops of Bethlehem Steel are now but... (more)