One of twenty-two "humpbacked" Dash 8-39Cs owned by Conrail is westbound by the defunct Bethlehem Steel facility in the background. This view was shot from the 2nd floor office of the o... (more)

PRR K4s No. 1361 (Juniata, 1918) in a back-up move, giving us a good view of its 130P75 tender. (13,000 gallons, Passenger service, 75" high firing deck; 22 tons of coal.) The track curving... (more)

Conrail is just two weeks old as a Penn Central GP38 leads a westbound local freight by the track gang near the Eby Chickies Road crossing. The 7841 was built in May of 1970 and ended up on the B... (more)

Ex-Reading T-1 2102 in its old "Reading Rambles" dress leads PRR E8s 5706 and 5898 around the Reading Yard, getting ready for a night photo session.

The NKP 587 and N&W 1218 doubleheader is about to clatter over the diamond at Barber, on its way to the Southern Loops and Asheville, during the 1989 NRHS Convention.

A 600-series Philadelphia-Harrisburg train passes the track gang near the now-closed Eby-Chickies Road crossing, on an unusually warm April day. The 231 was built by the St. Louis Car Co. in 1967... (more)

My late grandparents (on the left) give a sense of scale to two of the world's greatest steam locomotives- C&O H-8 No. 1604 and N&W Class A No. 1218. The location is the old Roanoke Transportatio... (more)

The "National Limited" is westbound to Kansas City on Good Friday, 1976. The unique freight/baggage elevator on the left has been preserved, but the umbrellas have been replaced by high... (more)

The recently restored UP Big Boy 4012, at Steamtown on National Train Day 2021

A 4-car set of owl-eyed MP54s pulls into Paoli on a mid-afternoon run. The basic design of these cars dated from 1915 when the PRR started to convert some of its standard P54 steam suburban coach... (more)

Seldom-seen on the old PRR Main Line west of Lancaster were manifest freights, but here's one on a Saturday morning, less than a month before the inception of Conrail. The train is eastbound, app... (more)

PRR M1b No. 6755 is looking good here in late 1989, except for the lack of its main rods, which are usually stored on top of the long-distance tender. Built by Altoona in 1930 as an M1a, it was l... (more)

A Buffalo-bound Conrail freight, leaving Enola and crossing the forty-eight 70-foot spans of Rockville Bridge on a cold, misty New Year's Eve, 1988

The end is near for GG1-powered passenger trains between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, as the fireman looks to the rear to watch the carman prepare for the uncoupling. The 4935 would have the hono... (more)

"Our Greatest Asset Is People," as noted at the bottom of the unique old Chessie Shops sign in Cumberland.