Steep! It's only about 7 miles from Bayard to Mount Storm- for a crow. But this coal train needs to climb nearly 1000 feet on a very crooked piece of railroad, with multiple horseshoe curves. Ekta... (more)

Norfolk & Western GP30 #2908 (former Nickel Plate Road #908) at Bison Yard.

Snow squalls obscure the distant hills as a U30B leads a westbound manifest downgrade through a wetland area near Hinsdale, Massachusetts.

The remaining operable GE centercabs didn't have much work to do by this time, as the WA&G had acquired F7s from GE. The two F7s on hand would soon depart for Louisiana, and the centercabs would w... (more)

Leased ex-Baltimore & Ohio 4582 partially repainted as CNJ 14.

It's a beautiful summer day in the Communipaw freight yards. Central Railroad Company of New Jersey had leased a group of Fairbanks-Morse switchers from the Baltimore & Ohio, one of which basks in... (more)

Erie Lackawanna Alco S-2, 1963. A partially-repainted Alco switcher passing Todd Shipyards, Hoboken, New Jersey.

EMD NW2 #183 and Alco RS-11 #400 idle on a hazy July afternoon. Packerton Yards, Lehighton, Pennsylvania.

Rockville Bridge photo stop. Former Canadian Pacific G5 Pacifics 1286 and 1238 lead a Baltimore Chapter NRHS/Red Clay Valley circle trip, Baltimore to Harrisburg. The passengers had a long day, as... (more)

A C&O freight works eastbound at the 1944 Blue Ridge Tunnel. This line is now operated by the Buckingham Branch Railroad.

It's a Sunday afternoon, and the only activity in the yard is a rare mileage/fall festival excursion from Hagerstown. Several F7 sets idled nearby, distracting photographers en route to the festiv... (more)

Going my way! This day's quest was New Haven Alcos and F-Ms in the South Bronx. After a bus ride, train ride, and subway ride to get here, I found the 0610 making setouts and pickups. I asked the ... (more)

By this time, with all of the new power on Erie Lackawanna, a pure A-A set was a lucky catch. Especially with an old F3 in the lead! Near a seldom seen stretch called the "single iron" by the rail... (more)

We are at or near the highest point (elev. 1676') on the Jersey Central (CNJ). The EMD SD35s with a westbound freight have just met a Lehigh Valley eastbound, and are beginning the steep descent... (more)

An eastbound SD45 duo about to enter Sparrow Bush, New York from Pennsylvania.