On a warm June morning, a Lehigh Valley RS11 and RS3 are in the servicing area at Bethlehem Engine Terminal. Both units are secondhand from Pennsylvania/Penn Central, that owned a controlling inte... (more)

After the hostler cleared the turntable at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with a pair of Lehigh Valley RS11’s , he opened the th... (more)

A pair of Lehigh Valley RS11’s leaves the turntable at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

A shop worker at Conrail’s Bethlehem, Pennsylvania roundhouse fires up Lehigh Valley RS11 7640 after performing some work on a rainy September day. LV’s RS11’s were always good for a smoke s... (more)

Green Bay & Western RS11 309 switches at Norwood Yard in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The GB&W applied unusual chop noses to several units, including this RS11 and several ex-Long Island C420’s. They a... (more)

Anyone who visited the Green Bay & Western in its last decades undoubtedly encountered the less-than-classic office at Green Bay’s Norwood Yard. Here an RS11 switching the yard passes the struct... (more)

Westbound Amtrak Keystone Service Train 667 is a few minutes behind schedule gliding through Ronks, Pennsylvania at 6:05 pm.

In 1964, the Nickel Plate Road was absorbed into the Norfolk & Western empire. Fourteen years later, many of its cars were still roaming the nation’s rail system. Here a classic offset-side two ... (more)

Several lines of storms rolled through Central Pennsylvania today, so I headed to Strasburg to get the last train of the day in evening storm light. The rainbows and dark clouds from the previous ... (more)

New Jersey’s fifteen-mile-long Rahway Valley was another short line that took advantage of the ICC incentive per diem boxcar rates of the late 1970’s. By the mid-1980’s, the rules were again... (more)

With more letters in its name than miles in its route, the Lake Erie Franklin and Clarion Railroad joined the per-diem boxcar craze of the late 1970’s. Here one of those cars passes through Alle... (more)

J. R. Simplot invested in a fleet of cryogenic reefers in the late 1980’s to move frozen commodities. These cars were cooled by liquid carbon dioxide that was slowly released inside the car, cre... (more)

With tourism severely down, Strasburg is operating on a greatly reduced schedule. Only one locomotive is used for the day, and 475 seems to be getting the call more often than not Here the 2:00 tr... (more)

After over twenty years of pulling commuter trains in New Jersey and New York, this Erie Lackawanna GP7 was bumped to local freight service when the U34CH’s were delivered. Originally Erie 1404,... (more)

Pittsburg & Shawmut’s Brookville local picks up two loads from the loader at McWilliams, Pennsylvania. One crewman waits to re-bend the iron while two others are ready to make the hitch.