Conrail local WJAL-12 is seen on the lead to Hercules Cement in Stockertown, Pennsylvania with a cut of hoppers. The track in the foreground is the former Lehigh and New England Martins Creek bran... (more)

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local, WJAL-12, is seen working in the small former Lehigh & New England yard in Stockertown, Pennsylvania. The tracks to the right lead to the Lehigh Valley’s Easto... (more)

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local, WJAL-12, pulls a cut of empty hoppers from the Hercules Cement mill in Stockertown, Pennsylvania.

Delivering the Bone

A friend and I heard Conrail local WJAL-18 on the scanner and decided to follow it on an unusual Saturday run. WJAL-18 was a turn from Allentown, Pennsylvania, ... (more)

During the year that Back to the Future appeared on the silver screen, the town where time stood still had its own back to the future moment. Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 was back pulling co... (more)

With marker lamps lit and flying American flags, C&O 4-8-4 614 leads an eastbound coal train through Deep Water, West Virginia.

After close to three decades of absence, coal smoke filled the air over trains of black diamonds in January, 1985. Here an eastbound train powered by C&O 4-8-4 614 passes through Handley, West Vir... (more)

A cloudy day at Strasburg was redeemed with a small opening of sun as 2-10-0 90 passed a herd of cows laying in the grass.

Steam returned to coal train service on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line during most of the month of January, 1985. C&O 4-8-4 614 pulled coal trains between Huntington and Hinton, West Virginia, wh... (more)

Completed in 1835, the Thomas Viaduct is the world’s oldest multiple-arch stone railroad bridge. Situated over the Patapsco River near Relay, Maryland, the structure was built by the Baltimore &... (more)

A Western Maryland GP40-2 leads an eastbound train through Washington, DC. This is taken in the vicinity of the Metro Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood station.

After a brief stop to address an air or mechanical issue, a westbound Baltimore & Ohio auto train is again under way at Elkridge, Maryland.

A westbound Baltimore & Ohio auto train passes the small passenger waiting shelter at Elkridge, Maryland.

On the weekend of September 24-5, 1983, two excursions were run on the B&O out of Baltimore. The grapevine said that the power was to be the former Clinchfield F-units, freshly painted in Seaboard... (more)

One of Santa Fe’s pre-Super Fleet GP50’s leads a forty-eight car eastbound train across the second bridge that it will encounter in Abo Canyon.