Sporting an uncharacteristic six domes, the very final westbound Rio Grande Zephyr approaches the divergence of the Craig branch and the Dotsero cutoff at Bond, Colorado.

An eastbound Union Pacific train rolls past Challenger 3985 shortly after the excursion passengers have detrained at Laramie, Wyoming. Many of those passengers, including the photographer, are str... (more)

Lehigh Structural Steel was a steel fabricator situated under the Tilghman Street Bridge in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Their unnumbered GE 45-tonner is making a pickup of a flat car load of structur... (more)

End of the Pocono Mountain Route

The last power to bring cars to Conrail’s Bangor & Portland subdivision from Scranton lays over next to the scale track in Portland, Pennsylvania... (more)

In September, 1985, the Reading Technical & Historical Society ran newly-acquired T-1 4-8-4 2102 on a series of excursions to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the outshopping of the T-1. The No... (more)

Out of the Hole

A former Erie-Lackawanna SDP45 leads a dimensional special out of the “Hole” at East Penn Junction. The recently rehabilitated connection from the Lehigh Valley... (more)

Travelling toward Federal #2 mine along Miracle Run, three Monongahela B23-7’s lead a train of empties through a location known as Fox Hollow..

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel bicentennial SW9 1258 pushes a cut of cars up the ramp at Wheeling Pittsburg’s Steubenville South plant in Mingo Junction, Ohio.

Pittsburg & Shawmut’s Mahoning yard, located along the Mahoning Creek a few miles geographically east of Reesedale, Pennsylvania, was largely inaccessible. Here a pair of the road’s SW9’s wo... (more)

The throat of the Chicago & North Western yard in Green Bay, Wisconsin is quite in demand as four crews wait their turn to use it. Each crew has a single locomotive, three GP7’s and a C628 in a... (more)

Carrying sixty-four cars of intermodal traffic, the Lehigh Valley’s Apollo 2 rolls east across the Delaware River. Three examples of the last power acquired by the LV are in charge of one... (more)

Forty years ago yesterday, I had graduated from a Kodak Instamatic to a brand-new Minolta SRT-101. I was running the first roll of film through it when I encountered this train on the CNJ-operated... (more)

Early Conrail action finds an empty perishable train climbing toward Horseshoe Curve on the four track Broad Way. The weeds in the track of one of the busiest railroads in the world illustrates th... (more)

An unmistakable Maine Central caboose punctuates a train leaving Rigby Yard in Portland, Maine. The trainman is striking a pose that would probably be frowned on in today’s safety culture.

Three Rio Grande GP9’s idle in the classification yard at Grand Junction, Colorado. Normally these units would be busy working, but these are unusual times. A landslide in Thistle, Utah has seve... (more)