Led by one of seven surviving AEM-7's, a late afternoon push pull express rounds the bend and passes through Radnor, PA en route to Paoli and points west.

The first of several Push Pull Express trains led by one of Amtrak's iconic AEM-7's arrives at Bryn Mawr Station early one Summer afternoon in August.

SEPTA's AEM-7 No. 2306 leads an evening express through Berwyn, PA en route to Paoli.

A late evening push-pull express led by AEM-7 No. 2302 flies through the 1870 built former PRR Wynnewood station en route to Paoli, PA

SEPTA Mid-Train Helper 2

After making its two station stops at Strafford, Pennsylvania , two SEPTA R5 Limi... (more)

SEPTA Mid-Train Helper

While riding the first of three AEM7-pulled Limited trains that departed Philadelphia for western suburbs along the R5 line, the AEM7 on my train suffered a ... (more)

For a few years in the 1990’s I worked in downtown Philadelphia, and commuted from the western suburbs on the former PRR main line. There were three trains that left downtown at the end of the w... (more)

A westbound late-afternoon SEPTA train approaches its station stop at Strafford, Pennsylvania. With its Victorian gingerbread architecture, the former PRR station at Strafford is one of the Pennsy... (more)

The Broadway Limited is racing west under the old Marietta Pike bridge, passing the crumbling station platforms at Mount Joy. The bridge has since been replaced, and Amtrak and the Commonwealth o... (more)

A single Penn Central E44 is on the point of a unit train of grain empties, waiting to proceed off No. 3 Track onto Conrail's Enola Branch. It's a brassy hot August day, and the fireman has his c... (more)

A crewman from the two light E44s stopped in the interlocking is crossing the 4-track mainline to pick up orders from the operator at PARK. Note the westbound E44-powered freight in the distance,... (more)

It's Leap Year Day 1976, about a month before Conrail, as the Penn Central's No. 4889 leads Amtrak's National Limited eastbound on the old PRR main line. Note the raised air intakes just below th... (more)

The PRR Heritage Unit is running long-hood forward, leaving Strasburg after a weekend on display at the RR Museum of PA. In the background is the 1880-built PRR freight station.

A battered No. 927 pushes its train away from the crumbling umbrella supports at the old PRR station on the high fill above E-town. The siding on the left services M&M Mars and the track on the r... (more)

Amtrak Metroliner #889 is on a Harrisburg to Philadelphia train as it runs around a SEPTA commuter train