On most other shortlines, this bridge might be considered a 'marquee' shot, but on the Wheeling's east end, its barely an after though. Having spent alot of time shooting some of the more famous l... (more)

The trolley bar and adjoining yard use to be the main shops of the San Diego & Arizona (Eastern was added after a takeover by SP). The railroad was constructed in the early 1910s to create a secon... (more)

If this early snowy scene is any indication of the up coming winter, we can expect alot more 539s and other Pennsylvania Light & Power trains over the Pittsburgh Line.

1 backs its train from the Cumberland Mine into the rotary dumper at the company's barge loading facility on the Mon River. As soon as 1 completes this task, its back to the mine for another train... (more)

AVR 1 is seen here passing below the approximate location of the Pittsburgh Railroad Scanner feed that allowed me to be lazy and sit on my computer until the last possible moment to get this shot.... (more)

In four years of living in Pittsburgh, I only once saw and never photographed B&P's trackage rights coal train on CSX. Then I visit four years later and see two in a week! Go figure. Despite a muc... (more)

This was the view that tower operators had for over 100 years of the busy four track New Haven Line in former SS 44, later Beck Tower. If I remember correctly, red levers control signals, black ar... (more)

The appropriately named Bond served as the meeting point of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad from the West and Denver and Salt Lake Railroad from the East. In later years, it served as a d... (more)

One of two HRRC GP9s awaits in the small (two track) yard just off the main line. In the background you can see the small, yet well maintained Housatonic Shops.

Happy Birthday to me. With half the day gone and my scanner missing in action, I took a gamble that "The Snake"- the Mountain Sub's only manifest train - was still leaving Cumberland in the early ... (more)

Helpers heading back after assisting a lengthily Fulton Yard to ACCA Yard transfer run. These old SAL signals use to mark the last interlocking before entering RFP territory. This is one of severa... (more)

J-Baaaaalin'. A rare (I'm told) daylight move by the EJE is seen here passing JB Tower. JB was busy today, about 5 mins later a work train would pass followed shortly after by a BNSF coal train.