NJT in Maryland, as Amtrak leases otherwise idle equipment for its annual Sunday after Thanksgiving NEC rush.

The 4935 is still looking pretty good two years after its restoration by the Wilmington Shops, as it makes a brief station stop at Aberdeen's northbound platform. Note the head-end power car made ... (more)

A battered Metroliner snack-bar coach rips over the East Bel Air Avenue crossing at 100+ mph, on its way to DC. Lead car No. 852 was one of twenty 60-seat snack-bar coaches built by GE as PRR Cla... (more)

A formidable force to encounter at a grade crossing- doubleheaded GG-1s on a train of heritage cars. At 80 mph, the "Silver Meteor" will soon be cooling its heels at Baltimore Penn Station.

Doubleheaded GG-1s, their trucks white with sand, are leading a southbound manifest to Bayview or Pot Yard. Conrail is only 2 months old, so lead motor No. 4854 is still wearing Penn Central lett... (more)

The now-preserved 964 (at Strasburg) is holding up traffic on Bel Air Avenue as it heads south toward DC's Union Station. This locomotive was built by GE for Amtrak in June, 1976, and was later r... (more)

GG-1s 4811 and 4886 are southbound at Aberdeen, passing the old PRR station at 18 East Bel Air Avenue on their way to Bayview or Potomac Yard. No concrete ties yet in 1978, and the 4-lane grade c... (more)

Dusty E-44s 4433 and 4456 power a northbound mineral train past the classic old PRR gooseneck lamps at Aberdeen. Conrail is only two months old, and some units have already been painted with the ... (more)

Two elephant-style E-44s are southbound on No. 3 Track, just north of Aberdeen's station. The E-44s weighed in at just over 192 tons and were almost 70 feet long; top speed was 70 mph. 66 were b... (more)

A northbound 11-car Amfleet express passes the old PRR gooseneck lamp still standing sentinel on the southbound platform at Aberdeen. Change had come to the NEC in the mid-70s with new cars and l... (more)

Early E-60 action, with no windshield screens. Train is southbound by the old taxi stand at the Bel Air Avenue crossing. No. 965 was built by GE for Amtrak in June of 1975.

Two ancient GG-1s with a bay-window caboose right behind their drawbars haul a manifest up the center freight track. No. 4811 was built by General Electric in July, 1935.

Local D732-12 returning to Baltimore westbound on the former B&O Baltimore to Philadelphia mainline. The station on the left was the former B&O Aberdeen station, and was recently moved back fro... (more)

The old B&O station at Aberdeen awaits restoration while enduring a winter snow. Raised on stilts, the building was moved to a new foundation further from the tracks not too long after this photo... (more)

Amtrak's first Metroliner "paint scheme" is seen in this photo, with an Amtrak sticker simply pasted over the Penn Central heralds. No. 859 is a Budd-GE parlor/snack car, equipped with ... (more)