A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

The Jersey Central’s last purchase of new freight power was twelve SD35’s in 1965. Nine secondhand SD40’s from the B&O rounded out the CNJ’s second generation freight roster, and together ... (more)

Twilight along the old Reading & Columbia Railroad, which opened for service during the Civil War, connecting Reading with the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal at Columbia. The old American House ... (more)

A 1977-built Conrail SD40-2 leads a train of empty hoppers westbound on the roller-coaster profile of the old Reading's East Penn Branch. This locomotive was renumbered to 3348 by Norfolk Souther... (more)

It was a beautiful fall day at Horseshoe Curve as a westbound Conrail freight made the climb up from Altoona with no less than ten EMDs on the point. I don't recall if all were working, but it app... (more)

From the bridge over Collinwood yard, we could see a train with some Santa Fe power getting up air to head west under cloudy skies. As a sucker hole in the clouds opened up, the train started movi... (more)

The remains of winter storm Jonas have Ridgecrest under a blanket of fresh powder as 135 completes its climb up the Blue Ridge on a beautiful winter afternoon.

With a huge chocolate plant in the background, GP40’s meet in the unincorporated community of Hershey, best known for its confectioneries and its amusement park.

A westbound Conrail hopper train rolls across the 10th Street grade crossing in Lebanon, PA. If there was a reason that there was a caboose immediately behind that power, I don’t recall it. I wa... (more)

Mother Slug set works Conway Yard. Conrail 7574 (former PRR GP9 7265) was rebuilt by Illinois Central Gulf at their Paducah, KY shop and re-classified as a GP10. This unit was retired 4 months af... (more)

On a sunny afternoon at MPS, an extremely rare Conrail SW8, #8687, leads empties through the yard for pick-up from the plant nextdoor. 8687 is a former Lehigh Valley unit. *Note: This photo was ta... (more)

The crew of the Grace Mine cleanout train has dropped their empty cars well short of the Elverson Road crossing in Joanna, Pennsylvania, and is now proceeding south to grab lunch at the Joanna Sto... (more)

The portion of the former Reading Wilmington & Northern branch between Joanna and Coatesville, Pennsylvania was ripped up in the early 1980’s, but the portion from Birdsboro to Grace Mine was ke... (more)

In a location captured by many photographers of the Reading Company, a Grace mine cleanout train ambles down the Wilmington & Northern branch along the Hay Creek south of Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. ... (more)