Saturday mornings during the winter were doubly busy at Denver Union Station. As soon as the Rio Grande Zephry leaves for Salt Lake City, the Rio Grande Ski Train will board, and wil... (more)

Conrail in Cornell Red – Almost eight months after the northeastern railroad scene has undergone its most dramatic transformation, many of the local activities continue on as usual. Here Lehigh ... (more)

Delaware & Hudson train RPPY (Rouses Point – Potomac Yard) passes the hump at Conrail’s Allentown Yard on the Allentown Running Track. Guilford has jettisoned the D&H, and the Susquehanna now ... (more)

The only two EMD hood units painted in the Daylight scheme, Southern Pacific SD45R 7399 and SD40E 7342, drift through Ansel, California. After helping the World’s Fair Daylight ove... (more)

Nowadays, it seems that any Class 1’s locomotive can show up anywhere in North America. In the 1970’s, foreign power showing up in a distant location was more uncommon. The Delaware & Hudsonâ€... (more)

After the demise of the 178-mile Lehigh & New England Railroad in 1961, all except two segments of its trackage were torn up. The remaining segments, a segment from Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, to the r... (more)

The first movement of the Chessie Steam Special, a ferry move to Philadelphia and Baltimore, has come to a halt in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. If I recall correctly, the 2101 had an overheated ... (more)

Bessemer & Lake Erie’s Western Allegheny branch local has left its train on the main, and is making a reverse move on the siding at Liggett, Pennsylvania.

Conrail WJAL-12 works at the Hercules Cement Mill in Stockertown, Pennsylvania. When I was a kid, Pennsylvania Route 191’s old alignment (now Hercules Drive) ran right behind the rail loading si... (more)

From his cupola seat in a wide-vision caboose, the conductor of a Chesapeake & Ohio hopper train gives a friendly wave to a few photographers. He is passing westward through Crozet, Virginia.

On a dreary autumn day, an Oak Island-bound Conrail freight with a pair of Lehigh and Hudson River C420’s bracketing two Lehigh Valley RS11’s rolls through Bethlehem Union Station. The lead Al... (more)

A New York, Susquehanna & Western B40-8/SD45/B40-8 combo brings Rouses Point-bound RPPY through Packerton Yard. The former Lehigh Valley Packerton car shops stand beyond the power.

Once part of a Tuscan fleet that pulled varnish on the Great Broad Way, this Penn Central E8 has now been stripped of many parts and languishes in Conrail’s Altoona dead line. As soon as its two... (more)

Two U.S. Army Alco MRS1 road switchers lead a train off of the Aberdeen & Rockfish and onto the tracks of the Cape Fear Railway, based in Fort Bragg. Today’s consist is entirely made up of aviat... (more)

Nine years after the FRA-mandated deadline for cars built before 1966 to have their roofwalks removed, there were still non-compliant cars in service. Here a Chesapeake & Ohio 40-foot boxcar, stil... (more)