Susquehanna’s Northern Division local continues on the Syracuse Branch at Chenango Forks, New York. The track in the foreground is the Utica Branch. The concrete bases indicate that signaling on... (more)

Susquehanna C420 2002 takes a car bound for the Agway in Whitney Point, New York north on the former Lackawanna Syracuse Branch. In the background is the Utica Branch, which diverged from the Syra... (more)

In the early days of the Susquehanna Northern Division, an ex-Virginia & Maryland C420 leads a northbound train through Chenango Forks, New York.

Morristown & Erie RS1 number 15 is ready to go to work at the road’s engine house at Morristown, New Jersey. It looks like both the Alco and its house are in the middle of paint projects.

The only diesel that New Jersey short line Morristown & Erie ever bought new from the builder was S4 number 14. Here the 32-yrar-old Alco is winding down its career in this 1984 view at Morristown... (more)

South Amboy, New Jersey was known for decades as the point where New York & Long Branch trains changed from electric to steam, and later, diesels for the trip down the Jersey coast. Very close to ... (more)

The Black River & Western freight local crosses the Raritan River as it approaches the Conrail interchange at Three Bridges, New Jersey. The truss bridge is known as the Old CNJ Bridge, and RS3 15... (more)

After crossing the big fill on the Monongahela Railway’s Waynesburg Southern branch, Conrail power passes the town of Rogersville, Pennsylvania.

Two equines of the non-ferrous variety watch a loaded Conrail coal train head north through their home in Bula, West Virginia.

With wash on the line, a suspension footbridge across the creek in the front yard, and coal trains in the back yard, the residence to the extreme right of the photo oozes Appalachia. The train is ... (more)

Three Louisville & Nashville unite still in L&N paint pull northbound empties through Girdler, Kentucky. By this time, it was becoming increasingly difficult to find trains without at least one Fa... (more)

Well-worn Louisville & Nashville U30C 1537, in Family Lines paint, leads a better-looking pair of SD40-2’s through Barbourville, Kentucky. They are pulling a coal drag toward Corbin on the line ... (more)

Louisville & Nashville RS36 914, aided by a slug cut down from an RS3, switches the yard in Corbin, Kentucky. C420 1320, adorned in the what may be the best version of L&N colors, stands in a line... (more)

After the Conrail consolidation, Lehigh Valley’s EMD switchers generally stayed in along the ex-LV lines until they were retired. Five months into Conrail, five dynamic brake equipped SW8’s pa... (more)

Four Lehigh Valley Alcos (C420/RS11/C420/RS11) pass near Bethlehem Engine Terminal as it moves from Steel Tower to Allentown Yard. Soon they will be headed west with train AM-1 (Allentown – Mech... (more)