MP2282 was one of seven MoPac GE's that were rebuilt by Jenks Shop with an EMD cab after sustaining accident damage. Here the unit leads a train on the Sedalia Sub over the Big Bend Blvd. overpass... (more)

With two cars for Mount Carmel, a Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern turn from Port Clinton approaches the Route 54 crossing in Locustdale, Pennsylvania.

In late 1963 Reading Lines purchased ten new Alco 2400hp C424 locomotives numbered 5201-5210.

Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern U33B’s meet at Gordon, Pennsylvania. The 3301, pointed eastward, has come west from Port Clinton, and is doing some switching before proceeding to Mount Carmel.... (more)

The McKeesport Connecting Railroad was built to connect its owner, the National Tube Works, later the US Steel National Plant, with the nearby B&O, P&LE, and PRR. Here the road’s bicentennial co... (more)

Dirty Old Town ... er ... Diesel

Because of the large number of tunnels (and snowsheds) found on the Southern Pacific, the railroad and EMD designed the SD45T-2 (and later the SD40T-... (more)

Gone Daddy Gone

On October 10, 1980, Santa Fe waycar 999009, the tenth caboose rebuilt into the railroad's 283 Ce-1 class cabooses in 1966, is about to duck into the first tunnel at ... (more)

Always somewhat elusive, a Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion coal train loads at the mine at Strattanville, Pennsylvania. Two-thirds of the latter-day LEF&C roster of two SW1500’s and four MP15DC’... (more)

Two E-33s are eastbound under the intricate catenary where the westbound Port Road Branch tied into the now-abandoned Atglen & Susquehanna Branch. Note that the eastbound main is half-stick half-... (more)

In an afternoon downpour - a common summer event down south - a pair of GP30s pass Union Station's trainshed on their way to Mobile with the long-distance local as an Alco switcher (with a transpl... (more)

A Gem in the Woods

The Chestnut Ridge Railway, winding east from its home borough of Palmerton, traversed an entirely rural route eleven miles along the base of Blue Mountain unti... (more)

Southern painted GP30 #2562 leads 3 other EMDs at Faquay Varina, NC || July 1985

Durham Southern #363 working at Fuquay Varina, NC in Feb. 1973

Southern B23-7 3997 leads 3 GP30s at Howell in downtown Atlanta, Oct. 1984.

Cartier Railway MLW M636 No.74 in its original paint scheme, with a GP9 No.54 in the background. August, 1974.