Power from the southbound Orange Blossom Special emerges from one of the tunnels under the intersection of 34th Street and Gray’s Ferry Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The EMD’s w... (more)

The southbound Orange Blossom Special crosses the Schuylkill River on the Columbia Bridge at Belmont, Pennsylvania. The Belmont Water Works can be seen above the lead unit.

The southbound Orange Blossom Special prepares to crosses the Schuylkill River at Belmont, Pennsylvania. If I recall correctly, the plot of dirt in the foreground was a cooperative garden f... (more)

The southbound Orange Blossom Special crosses the Schuylkill River on the former Reading bridge at Belmont, Pennsylvania. The OBSS almost always had CSX units in the consist, but today’s ... (more)

Early morning finds the southbound Orange Blossom Special, with predominately Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac power, rolling through Fairless Junction, Pennsylvania, on SEPTA’s West ... (more)

In a Potomac Yard scene repeated countless times over the years, a Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac SW1500/slug set grabs a classic Conrail N5C caboose off of an inbound train. It is entirely po... (more)

In the company of an MP15 over a quarter-century its junior, a Union Railroad TR5 set idles in front of the railroad’s roundhouse at Hall, Pennsylvania. Anyone who read model railroading magazin... (more)

Two of the more interesting members of Union Railroad’s fleet of EMD switchers stand with stacks capped outside of the shops at Hall, Pennsylvania. The Union purchased two TR5 “cow and calf”... (more)

The Everett Railroad local is working in Claysburg, Pennsylvania on a crisp March morning. It is seen dropping a CN box car at a local industry.

Susquehanna stack train NTV-9 crosses the Chenango River while making its exit from Binghamton, New York. Three SD45’s in progressive stages of the transformation from BN to NYS&W provide the po... (more)

Norfolk & Western U30B 8518 idles on a turntable track nest to the three-stall roundhouse in the Baltimore & Ohio yard in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. The N&W bought 110 of 295 total U30B’s prod... (more)

My only visit to the Laurinburg & Southern was a stop at Laurinburg, North Carolina when nothing was running. Through a locked gate, a view of two 70-tonners was possible. Bicentennial unit 76 app... (more)

Passing structures that no longer exist, Lancaster & Chester’s local works in Chester, South Carolina.

Lancaster & Chester’s local works the former Southern Railway interchange by the depot in Chester, South Carolina.

The incandescent light of a red signal glows on cars from “Thomas Edison’s Railroad” in their waning days, spending the night at the end of the branch at Gladstone, New Jersey.