An eastbound Conrail hopper train approaches the newly renovated Main Street crossing in Royersford, Pennsylvania. The brick station was built by the Reading in 1931. After fifty years of service,... (more)

Am I blue?

CSX leads one of the last Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus trains westbound through Langhorne, PA, under a tunnel of catenary on the former Reading right of way. T... (more)

Rush hour at Woodbourne!
A zoom pan captured at dusk at 1/20th of a second.

A married pair of SEPTA Silverliner V's race east at rush hour en route to Ya... (more)

The “acid train”, CP/D&H train 700, starts its journey from Philadelphia to Baltimore at the entrance to CSX’ East Side Yard. Fortunately the drab GATX SD40-2, which was destined to become a... (more)

30th Street Encounter – 3

A Harrisburg train has arrived at 30t Street Station in Philadelphia, and the hostlers are taking the GG1 to the Race Street engine terminal. I’m not ... (more)

30th Street Encounter – 2

Soon after a GG1-pulled Harrisburg train arrived at 30th Street Station in Phil... (more)

A Camden bound light rail vehicle heads south through downtown Riverside on NJ Transit's River Line. The former Pennsylvania Railroad passenger station can be seen to the right, while the former ... (more)

Septa painted MP54's rest in the layover yard Wilmington, DE in 1980.

Penn Central GG1’s 4850 and 4844, still carrying their PRR single-stripe scheme, wait for their next assignment at Pavonia Yard in Camden, New Jersey. Pavonia was the major yard of the Pennsylv... (more)

Back on "home rails", Norfolk Southern's Pennsylvania Railroad heritage unit leads eastbound intermodal train 24K across the Neshaminy Creek in Langhorne, PA on the former Pennsy;vain Ra... (more)

A former Santa Fe GE B23-7 shoves a string of tank cars into one of the many industries within the Pureland Industrial Complex. While the SMS has a mostly Baldwin sister, there are a few exception... (more)

A pair of light SD50’s crosses the Schuylkill River Viaduct in the West Falls section of Philadelphia. The stone arch structure was built by Reading Company predecessor Philadelphia & Reading Ra... (more)

Philadelphia-bound hoppers roll eastbound through Belmont on the former Reading main line. The road on the hill above the train is the Schuylkill Expressway, sometimes known as the world’s longe... (more)

It’s late afternoon on a March day, and Conrail’s North Penn local is headed into electrified territory to work SEPTA’s North Penn line. The commuter traffic on the line dictated that it be ... (more)

Conrail’s North Penn local is switching its train in the Lansdale, Pennsylvania yard, and has pulled a longer cut down to the passenger platforms. A SEPTA employee pauses from his shoveling to w... (more)