The new SD60E is being tested in helper service on the Slope. What better way to ensure every facet of a locomotive is working???
In the early fall of 1982, Amtrak hosted "Amtrak's Family Days" at the Albany-Rensselaer station. Here we see a Turboliner set, an F40PH and a D&H observation car on display. Children got balloons... (more)
A pair of SD40Es are on the rear of an eastbound coal drag pass through the Amtrak station and the ex-PRR structure...
A westbound manifest, with 5 big GEs, skirts the Conemaugh River on the way through town...
A westbound UPS train heads over Bridge #6 between Spruce Creek and Tyrone. Two fishermen just left the spot below the arches after the sun dropped below the mountain behind me...
I always thought that the BNSF orange and Conrail blue looked good next to each other. I never figured to see a consist like that in the middle of NS territory!!! No complaints...
37Q eases out of Enola Yard on the first leg of its journey to Knoxville TN. UP 9150 is leased to NS and make it north to PA on occasion...
A PP&L coal train must have had some problems...
The sunlight finally crests the mountains to light up the Altoona shops and yards, forty minutes after official sunrise. Included are C42, five sets of SD40E helpers, powerless 924 Herzog train an... (more)
A rare whiteface NS unit leads 26T on its final approach to Harrisburg Intermodal Terminal at Marysville...
An empty Herzog ballast train passes under the classic PRR signal bridge at Mapleton...
The eastbound Pennsylvanian negotiates the twisty trackage between Tyrone and Spruce Creek on its way to its next stop at Huntingdon...
A Saturday edition of Altoona East's only local train passes the New Enterprise Stone & Lime strip mine facility at the area known as Union Furnace on PRR's old Middle Division...
After a long wait, the first westbound of many speeds down the long straight between Cassandra and Portage on the West Slope...
A very heavy 37A with loaded ballast cars the rear needs the help of two helpers to crest the slope this fine morning...
