The 4870 leads a southbound freight by Aberdeen Station at 18 East Bel Air Avenue. The 1943-built station was designed for the Pennsylvania Railroad by architect Lester C. Tichy. Today, this sce... (more)

An unlikely doubleheader of a 4-6-2 & 0-6-0 is pulling the 11:00 a.m. train back to Minersville; one of three trains operated that day. The 425 was built for the Gulf, Mobile, and Northern by Bal... (more)

Rolling thunder- the 1218 is southbound from Bellevue to the Ohio State Fair on the old PRR Sandusky Branch.

An encounter with a speeding GG-1 at a rural Lancaster County grade crossing, with the National Limited eastbound at 70 mph. The 929 was the last GG-1 built, constructed by Altoona/GE in June of ... (more)

The CNJ 113 rumbles along Railroad Street with the 1:00 p.m. Santa Claus Special from Minersville. The ground is literally shaking under the 168-ton weight (engine and tender) of this massive 0-6... (more)

The NKP 757 and two icons of Pennsy steam- K4s No. 3750 and M1b No. 6755, in the fall of 2018. The 757 was moved to Bellevue, Ohio, in February of 2019. These three would have to be right up the... (more)

The end of the Conrail electric years affords a rare opportunity to see an E-44 and an E-33 coupled nose-to-nose in the scrap line at Rutherford.

The CNJ 113 has things well in hand on the return trip of the 1:00 p.m. Santa Claus Special to Minersville. The only operating anthracite burner extant was built by Alco in 1923 and worked for th... (more)

The N&W A and J are racing past the photo line, transporting hundreds of conventioneers back to the glory days of steam. One wonders if this scene will ever be repeated.

Two E44s are heading west through COLA Interlocking in the long-hood forward mode, wearing Conrail's "minimalist" paint scheme with no markings except the cab numerals. No. 4454 was bui... (more)

A Kodachrome 200 view of the motorcade on US Route 220 keeping pace with the 1361 on its maiden run return trip from Bellefonte to Altoona. The locomotive has just swept aside a chunk of debris (... (more)

The eastbound UP office car special is passing the old 1900-built Philadelphia & Reading Railway station in Lebanon at 4:25 p.m.

Two Penn Central GG-1s lead an eastbound manifest down the Susquehanna Valley at the west end of Lake Siding, as seen from the aerie of Chickies Rock.

This was our first visit to Aberdeen, and the first train we saw, and it was disappointing at the time, because we had come to see the GG1s, E60s, and the Metroliners. Looking back, I'm glad I to... (more)

GG-1 No. 923 (PRR/Westinghouse, 2-43) is hustling "The Bankers" toward Washington on a rainy Saturday afternoon. The classic old store on the right along E. Bel Air Avenue is long-gone.