A Delaware & Hudson Belden Hill detour train comes west on Conrail’s Southern Tier line east of Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. The former Erie main line can be seen crossing the frame in the distance... (more)

Assaulting Gulf Summit

The high and wide extra is seen accelerating past a small crossing just before running over the famous Starrucca Viaduct. The three loads in town are bo... (more)

Carnival Crossing Starrucca

The annual carnival train is seen slowly crossing the impressive Starrucca Viaduct behind a set of NS GE's for power. While during the longer days i... (more)

Leading an Oak Island to Buffalo freight is a GP38 without dynamic brakes, originally ordered by the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, but delivered to the Penn Central. No. 7670 was built wit... (more)

A "detour" train photographed during the rebuilding of the Belden Hill Tunnel in the fall of 1985. The steep connecting track between the now-abandoned D&H Penn Division under the viadu... (more)

Before the real work commenced for the day, a quick jaunt to Lanesboro, Pennsylvania was in order for a rare daylight passage of the New York Susquehanna & Western's Port Jervis, NJ to Syracuse, N... (more)

Strates over Starrucca

The 2014 edition of the Strates Carnival train is seen easing across the impressive Starrucca Viaduct with a matched set of SD60's for power. The leader ... (more)

A pair of C-430's are slugging it out on the grade to Gulf Summit with an early NYS&W haulage train. The track swinging off to the left was the Jeff Connector, which was heavily used as a detour i... (more)

Stacks over Starrucca! In a scene reminiscent of the 80's, the hot CSXT Q004 makes a rare daylight move over the Starrucca Viaduct. Thanks to the signal suspension on the CSX Mohwawk Subdivision t... (more)

The Sunday version of the Binghamton to Little Ferry SU100 digs into the Gulf Summit grade as it rolls across the Starrucca Viaduct on the old Erie Lackawanna. On this July evening the train is po... (more)

Merry Christmas to all!! Hard to believe that it has been 27 years since I took this photo of a Guilford detour train heading West towards Binghamton after running around it's train at Lanesboro. ... (more)

Nickel Plate Road Berkshire #759 rolls an excursion downgrade on historic Starrucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. The train will spend the night in Binghamton, New York, and return the next ... (more)

Erie-Lackawana F-7A 7134 and a mate were standing by to push an eastbound symbol freight up to Gulf Summit. While this train waited for a clear signal the photographer Ken Patton walked the entir... (more)

This symbol freight is headed for EL's North Jersey terminals, the rear of this Eastbound, has about cleared the viaduct on its hard pull over Gulf Summit. Ahead lays Port Jervis and Suffern, NY. ... (more)

A northbound D&H light helper drops downgrade under Starrucca Viaduct at Lanesboro, PA on April 10, 1976 with RS36 No. 5009 and a RS3M.