Reflections on a Silt Pond

Pittsburg & Shawmut’s Brookville local passes a silt pond near the loader at Markle, Pennsylvania. The green water in the pond still provides a reasona... (more)

With a trainload of coal from various lineside mines, Pittsburg & Shawmut’s Brookeville local returns to Brookville on a February afternoon. Four P&S SW9’s lead the train onto the massive tres... (more)

About to duck under the Pittston Street overpass, a northbound Delaware & Hudson train rumbles through Dupont, Pennsylvania.

A set of Delaware & Hudson power passes through the south end of Taylor Yard.

A northbound Delaware & Hudson train is about to cross over Conrail’s former Lehigh Valley main line at Dupont, Pennsylvania, as viewed from the Pittston Street bridge. It appears that this trai... (more)

A Boston & Maine GP39-2, “appropriated” from the Delaware & Hudson by Guilford, leads a southbound D&H train past the yard office in Taylor, Pennsylvania.

Four EMD’s, three GP39-2’s and a GP38-2, lead a northbound Delaware & Hudson train past the yard office in Taylor, Pennsylvania.

A southbound Delaware & Hudson train waits for a crew at Taylor, Pennsylvania. Once on board, the crew will take the train to Allentown, Pennsylvania, on its way to Potomac Yard in Alexandria, Vir... (more)

A southbound Delaware & Hudson train does some work and gets a new crew at the yard in Taylor, Pennsylvania. I’m not sure about the transfer caboose, but the road caboose at the front of the tra... (more)

One of a dozen RS36 units delivered to the Delaware & Hudson by in 1963, 5022 switches the yard at Taylor, Pennsylvania. The Alco would last into the CP era of the D&H.

Skirting the partially frozen Lehigh River, Delaware & Hudson train OILC (Oak Island, NJ – Lacolle, QC) approaches Lehigh Gap, Pennsylvania.

Delaware & Hudson train OILC (Oak Island, NJ – Lacolle, QC) rolls through Parryville, Pennsylvania on a dreary January day. The D&H had faith in their Alcos, letting this 22-year veteran lead a ... (more)

A northbound Delaware & Hudson manifest test the limits of Kodachrome as it arrives at Lehighton, Pennsylvania. Although it’s heresy for an Alco fan to say, those four lightning stripe GP39-2’... (more)

The low sun on a late August afternoon highlights the Alco High Adhesion trucks on Conrail C430 2053. The Century still plies the rails of the Western New York & Pennsylvania.

Half of Conrail’s active fleet of E10B electrics spend the weekend in the former Niagara Junction engine house in Niagara Falls, New York.