Conrail’s E33 electrics looked great in the schemes that they wore for former owners Virginian and New Haven. Penn Central – not so much. Several of them did get a cosmetic upgrade during thei... (more)

Brick

Some of my friends have been known to refer to N&W/NS high-hood units as bricks, as they have the profile of a dark, nondescript rectangle. Perhaps the only locomotive more f... (more)

Sunset on the 4935- its work done for the day, the famed electric heads for the motor track. It will pull the Broadway Limited east the next day, during the last month of GG1-powered passenger tr... (more)

Heading for Enola

Built as Pennsylvania Railroad 4934 in March, 1943, Amtrak GG1 4927 was one of a few GG1’s to be painted in this paint scheme.Tthe colorful rebranding may have been more interesting than PC/Amtr... (more)

“Big Blue's Newest”
Detail of CR C39-8 6007, temporarily assigned to static display on Track 10 at the Harrisburg Transportation Center during the dedication of PRR GG1 4859 on Novem... (more)

Amtrak's Pennsylvanian approaches the Harrisburg station, with Norfolk Southern's GI8 yard visible in the background.

The last operating GG-1s to visit Harrisburg, if I'm not mistaken. NJT 4877 and 4876 have just pulled the Lancaster Chapter NRHS "Farewell to the GG-1" special from Harrisburg-Philadelp... (more)

"Autumn Leaf in the City"

The one-of-a-kind 6,000 hp experimental freight electric rests between assignments in the forlorn yard tracks east of Harrisburg's station. Weighing in at 182 1/2 tons and nearly 69 feet long, th... (more)

A three-train meet (they're all moving) as Amtrak 514 shoves GG-1 4859 to its temporary home west of Harrisburg's station, to allow track maintenance in the terminal area. The 4859 and the PRR ca... (more)

An EMD SW1 has removed the HEP (head-end power) car from the Broadway Limited and is preparing to position it for the next morning's eastbound run, to be pulled by GG-1 No. 4913, at the left of th... (more)

For lack of a better name I guess you could call it Conrail crud, sort of a mix of road dirt and some kind of greenish fungus that splotched up older units. It looked contagious. This ex-PRR uni... (more)

Doubleheaded GG-1s 4913-4912 have just brought the Broadway Limited in from New York. The crew is preparing to uncouple the locomotives for their trip to the motor track and couple up the diesels... (more)

Making the first of its pair of Susquehanna River crossings in the Harrisburg area as it heads for Enola