An eastbound VIA train has made its station stop at Brockville, Ontario. It looks like the front of the train will continue to Ottawa, and the FPA4 on the siding will couple to cars left on the ma... (more)

Four U23B's roll an eastbound train into Treichlers. The Lehigh Valley's last new power was financed by URSA as a precursor to Conrail.

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)

What Did They do to You?

Until I came across this forgotten slide, I would have sworn that none of Conrail’s MT4 or MT6 slugs ever locked knuckles with an Alco road switcher of t... (more)

My friends and I had high hopes of catching a Green Mountain RS1 on the train to Rutland during our December visit to New England. Needless to say, we were somewhat disappointed when the train cam... (more)

Exuding as much brute force and strength as any steam locomotive ever has, Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 walks the Chessie Safety Express up the B&O’s Sand Patch grade. As the train negotia... (more)

The Roads No Longer Taken

Four years after a landslide at Thistle, Utah blocked the Spanish Fork River with thousands of tons of earth, wiping out the town, a westbound Rio Grande ... (more)

Waiting for rebirth – Bamgor & Arootook F3A 46 stands outside of the former Reading Company shops in Reading, Pennsylvania. Missing its prime mover, the 1948 EMD is now owned by the Anthracite R... (more)

Side-by-side Conrail Trailer Van trains work westward from Altoona at Bennington Curve, Pennsylvania. The GP38/GP38-2 power has a U25B trailing for added “atmosphere”.

In the early 80's, the main attraction at Lambert's Point was C630's with slugs made from cut-down FM Trainmasters. A group of SD9's, including this one in classic N&W blue paint, were a nice bonu... (more)

Conrail and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac had a short-lived run-through train between Allentown, Pennsylvania and Richmond, Virginia. The train ran on the former Reading to Philadelphia... (more)

A baker’s dozen years after the Great Northern was merged into the Burlington Northern, an unaltered 50’ GN boxcar rolls through Lilly, Pennsylvania.

The real prize when visiting the Dardanelle and Russellville was this honest-to-goodness cast-frame, Winton-engine, Electro Motive Corporation switcher from the 1930's. Fortunately, this locomotiv... (more)

As a locomotive on the roster of the nation's passenger railroad, I'm sure that this SW1 never pulled revenue passengers. Here, it has run around its train at Dillinger, and is hauling a half-doze... (more)

Conrail RSD5 6802 awaits its fate in the deadline at Collinwood, Ohio. Unfortunately, that fate was the scrapper’s torch.