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)

One of the huge losses insofar as scenic lines was the Rio Grande route via Tennessee Pass that carried just enough traffic to keep things interesting. I was working as relief agent at Minturn and... (more)

CWFBT-5 hurries back to the Black Thunder Mine behind a couple of C&NW DC units as it crosses the flatlands of eastern Nebraska. Fuji Sensia.

A winter afternoon has yet another coal train ascending Crawford Hill near Windy Point. BN and AT&SF had already merged their corporate entities and Santa Fe power was beginning to migrate as evid... (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)

At the time, the thought of a coal train being nostalgic would have seemed ridiculous. The years have not been kind to the coal business and thus scenes such as this, that were once as common as c... (more)

The great onslaught of SD70Ms had not yet replaced the SD40 generation in this scene from early 2000 as a then typical brace of SD40-2s leads a North Platte to Pocatello manifest out the Sidney Su... (more)

Through the bleak landscape of a winter afternoon, UP 8305 leads a former MKT SD40-2 with a North Platte-bound manifest, about to pass beneath US Route 30 in Logan, IA. Ektachrome.

A pair of helpers shove an eastbound up the grade through RG interlocking - once the site of RG block station (tower). The eastward grade is fairly steep here and the undulating territory plus vol... (more)

Symbol freight ALPI (Allentown-Conway) passes beneath the westward home signal bridge for MG interlocking as afternoon shadows reach down the mountain slopes.

As ubiquitous in this territory at the rear of heavy freights as cabin cars once were, a pair of helpers attached to an eastbound manifest exert their added dynamic braking power as the train desc... (more)

As evening descends, a pair of SD80MACs walk an eastbound manifest off the mountain approaching Altoona. Fuji Astia.

Conrail 6640, the Conway-bound OIPI out of Oak Island, rounds Horseshoe Curve on a lovely autumn day.

Conrail 6847 East is blowing for the rural grade crossing at Warrior Ridge, PA on a bluebird summer morning. The classic signal bridge lasted until the NS years and was the second set of signals w... (more)

One of the daily fleet of trailvans negotiates the crossover at View interlocking before hitting its stride along the old Middle Division. The Susquehanna River in the background curves through th... (more)