A 1967-built SD40 makes a smoky exit from the 1854 Summit, or Allegheny Tunnel, which was rebuilt 1994-95 with two tracks and clearance for double-stacks. As part of that project, Gallitzin Tunne... (more)

Twilight of the GG-1; literally and figuratively, as the 4913 waits for the next eastbound Broadway during the last month of operations to Harrisburg. Note the ex-Lehigh Valley GP38AC in the east... (more)

An ex-EL U25B smokes up the catenary after a crew change, as the relief fireman gets in a few last words with his fellow employees waiting on a taxi. No. 2573 was built by GE for the Erie-Lackawa... (more)

Conrail is just over two weeks old in this scene of a westbound Silverliner II set making a station stop on Good Friday, 1976. Note the distinctive Penn Central font on the station sign and the o... (more)

The 1218 is turning its train after an excursion to Fremont, Ohio.

Three locomotives originally built for the PRR pose for the camera in 1990. It's interesting to compare the boiler diameter of the 1914-built Atlantic to the 1905-built American Type No. 1223, wh... (more)

The 4896 has an easy task in pulling only three Heritage Cars by the northbound platform, nearing the Bel Air Avenue crossing. Note the old PRR gooseneck lamps to the left of the platform.

Cornwall Branch action, as the 7545 hauls a string of coil cars from Lebanon Yard to Alcoa, near Cornwall. The train is coming off the old Cornwall Railroad onto the old Cornwall and Lebanon Rail... (more)

We're inside the long-gone Union Junction Tower at 2:44 p.m., with the op facing the Union Switch & Signal electro-pneumatic Model 14 interlocking machine, installed in 1935. The tower, built in ... (more)

A B40 with a Conrail "Labor/Management Project" nose decal is westbound by the 1942-built MG (Mid-Grade) Tower. The tower is about 1 mile west of Horseshoe Curve, and was offered by Lio... (more)

Still wearing their PRR yellow stripes, the 4850 and 4891 await their demise in the Rutherford scrap line.

The CNJ 113 heads to its new home in Minersville, dead-in-tow in a Reading and Northern freight on the old Reading Main Line.

One of the last GG1-powered Broadway Limiteds is about to cross the now-abandoned Oak Lane crossing on its way to the next stop in Lancaster. The 4924, one of seven units to wear Amtrak's "P... (more)

We're on top of the Gettysburg's rough-riding converted autorack "observation car," watching our mixed freight's Baldwin pusher getting ready to do some switching. No. 407 was built in ... (more)

Metroliner car 884 startles my cousin on the train platform with its melodious multi-chime horn. (Every Metroliner we had seen before had the standard shrill 2-chime horn.) This car was eventual... (more)