A roster-y shot from somewhere in Toronto, back in the day, hopefully the water tower will allow identification. I would expect a yard in the NE suburbs of Toronto, but 30 years does something to... (more)

Crooks Terminal Warehouse operated warehouses in Kansas City, and perhaps other cities, in addition to Chicago. For more shots of the Zephyr Pit area that day, see Railroad: RTA (Chicago)
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Locomotive #: RTA 109
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 21, 1981

A CSX scale car bides time next to an old C36-7 (CSXT 7138) under a favorite tree. The nearest two tracks are the mainlines. For a shot of the Dash 7 from the same location and day, see more)

An RTA engine moves about the station throat area, underneath the CTA bridge above Lake Street (itself passing underneath the throat). Note the interesting ground signals. For another shot at th... (more)

Last train of the year! Amtrak blasts by an already quiet yard, and the line goes quiet for the rest of the day. The tree on the right, a long time resident, contemplates another year pas... (more)

An NW 4-8-0 ending its career is turned under the watchful eye of a Monongahela Connecting C415 (MCRR 701), whose paint is in surprisingly bad shape for such a new engine. :)

A Lerro Productions... (more)

An Acela comes NB off the two-track Susquehanna River Bridge. Even given the extreme telephoto compression, impressive how the track fluctuates. I'd love to see a similar shot of, say, a TGV or ... (more)

In an exceptional spirit of cooperation between big, mean Amtrak and local bathers, a swimming platform has been tethered to the Susquehanna River Bridge! Or maybe no one bothered to tell ...

Chores await, but mom has let me climb a tree to see the local freight bringing in more supplies. A Lerro Productions photo charter at Strasburg.

The Ma and Pa switcher is done for the night while the visitor from afar prepares to tuck in before returning home tomorrow. A Lerro Productions photo charter. (Maryland & Pennsylvania NW2 #81, ... (more)

An outbound MARC pulls in on track 1 as a CSX manifest waits on track 3, needing fuel from the rack, for the MARC to unload passengers (at the station behind the photographer's left) and push back... (more)

MARC (or CSX?) has been outfitting stations with crossing lights to warn passengers crossing the tracks between platforms that a train is coming. Note the white crossties in the LED graphic, and ... (more)

HO tower, still on duty, looks over the quiet railyard during a snowstorm. What the tower, and the tree!, have seen over the years. Sadly, only the tree remains.

Now featured with my article... (more)

We love the railcars also! Perhaps my favorite sight on CSX's Metropolitan Sub is to catch the cuts of CNW yellow hopper cars, usually found toward the end of a Q4xx train. WB tower, st... (more)

The trash train passes the many newspaper, classifieds, and real estate publication dispensers at the end of the MARC station platform; the station is just off the right side of the image, on the ... (more)