A four-pack of SD40s ramrod a 109 car Ore Extra up the grade past MG Interlocking in the summer of '95.

CR 3276, a former Reading Company GP40-2, is in charge of symbol ALPI as the manifest ascends the mountain. Horseshoe Curve lays in the valley beyond the classic PRR-era signal bridge at this remo... (more)

A westbound mail train is attacking the mountain on a May afternoon. Power is typical of the era - a trio of four axle GE and EMD power, although newer units were soon to take over. The scene is b... (more)

On one of those capricious spring days when the sun is in and out of the clouds, and at a time when there was still some auto parts business from the GM and Ford plants at Linden and Metuchen, NJ,... (more)

Penn Central train NS-1 (New Haven/Cedar Hill to Selkirk via Springfield) climbs the Berkshire hills through Huntington, MA behind an ex-NYC U25B and an ex-NH RS-11, RS-3, and GP9.

A mix of former NYC and NH power leads Penn Central train NS-1 (New Haven/Cedar Hill to Selkirk via Springfield) through Beckett, MA, on a summer afternoon. An ex-NYC U25B leads an RS-11, RS-3, an... (more)

Three Conrail B36-7’s lead train Mail-3 through Belt Line Junction near Reading, Pennsylvania. The B36-7’s have been the preferred power for Mail and other hot trains since they bumped GP40 an... (more)

Proceeding west on the Southern Tier line, Conrail train ALCG approaches an eastbound semaphore in double track territory west of Chemung, New York.

Conrail train ALCG begins the last leg of its journey, heading westward on the Southern Tier line at Waverly, New York. Ted Clark’s Busy Market still is located at this site, but the building an... (more)

Conrail train ALCG crosses the Susquehanna River on the former Lehigh Valley bridge at Towanda, Pennsylvania. The track in the foreground is the Towanda Monroeton Shipper’s Lifeline, a six-mile ... (more)

As snow comes to the Heartland this Easter Sunday, I thought I'd go back to an April day in '93 when rain turned to snow overnight and yielded a heavy, wet snow in central Pennsylvania. At MG, hal... (more)

A pair of Locomotive Management Services Dash 8s, leaving no doubt as to their caretaker, lead a westbound intermodal train past old Huntingdon Block Station on a July afternoon. Ektachrome.

One of my favorite places to observe traffic was MG, located about 2 miles west of Horseshoe Curve on the climb to Gallitzin. The block station was open and symbol OIPI (Oak Island-Conway) was cro... (more)

Just another day on the old PRR, or so it seemed with the position light signals. This Conway to Baltimore eastbound is passing beneath the home signals at Port interlocking, a short distance west... (more)