There and Back Again

The NS Office Car Special arrived back in Altoona about a week prior, coming home via Hagerstown and the Lurgan Branch, but it was facing the wrong direction. To... (more)

A Century of Excellence

Assorted power rests around the turntable at Norfolk Southern's Juniata Locomotive Shop. Built as the Erecting Machine Shops of the PRR's Altoona Works (Juni... (more)

Completing the Cycle

Everett 11 rolls over the Juniata River on a bright, muggy summer Saturday. With this, I complete a three season series at this angle with #11-- Railroad: Everett Railroad
Locomotive: Steam 2-6-0
Location: Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: EV 11
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July 15, 2017

In the Dust

NS 1073 rolls thru the rock cut separating Union Furnace and Pemberton on the former PRR Middle Division, leading an empty crude train west. 'Crude' has a double meaning ... (more)

The Early Bird Gets the (Glow) Worm

NS 1072 (Illinois Terminal heritage) led a 60I (sixty-eye) from South Fork to Altoona the previous day, with the train being tied down. 60I is a l... (more)

Thunder in the Gorge

Four and a Quarter charges unassisted thru the rock cut at Glen Onoko, splitting my ear drums with the sound of her exhaust at 40 mph echoing off the rock walls.... (more)

All That Remains Where the I1s Roamed

NS 633 trundles past the few remaining structures of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Renovo Shops complex. The yard and most of the buildings have l... (more)

Sand Tower Switching

On a dreary night with rain starting to fall in the late 1930s, a Baldwin Locomotive Works demonstrator 0-6-0 waits on a switch to be thrown before moving a cut ... (more)

The End Has Come

It's late summer of 1947, and the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western has completed its order of 24 EMD F3(A) and 12 F3(B). The end of steam on the Route of Phoebe Sno... (more)

Soaked and Steamy

On a wet late summer night, a hostler conductor for the Grand Trunk signals his engine to a stop for a spin on the table. Other engines wait their turn in the backg... (more)

A Strange Turn of Events

Normally, there's no freight traffic on the Minersville branch on a Saturday, but due to some extraneous circumstances (a minor derailment, I heard) near Tre... (more)

It'll Buff Out

Seen waiting outside the steel shop at Juniata, farm-plow wannabes 4001 and 1036 await evaluation before decisions are made. Considering the damage done to 4001's cab ... (more)

Run Away, Little Boy! Run Away!

Amtrak's Pennsylvania pulls up to WORKS in Altoona, but not without a near-miss. The boy on the bicycle in the middle of the frame is one of several t... (more)

Over the River (and Thru the Woods)

the Everett Railroad's little 2-6-0 marches over the little Juniata River outside Hollidaysburg. This bridge is burred in the woods, and while we'... (more)

Running from the Sun

NS 9152 smashes its way into the Iron Triangle at Fostoria, running away from the rising, blazing-hot summer sun. Unlike the characters in a short story I read a... (more)