On the last day of my first tine ever in Chicago (July 16, 1984) my plan was to go to Marshall Field to see if I could talk to the rug and carpet buyer (the business I was in at the time). Failing... (more)

Conrail's Collinwood to Rockport yard transfer passes through the F-unit mecca (at the time) of Collinwood Yard, Cleveland, Ohio, on December 28, 1978. It is led by three dewormed Penn Central F7(... (more)

Following a Cleveland railfanning extravaganza with my friend and his dad, we headed home via Horseshoe Curve and then a stop at Altoona (shops and yards). The yards were filled with dead power, m... (more)

Suffering through the last months before I got a driver's license, I traveled by train as much as possible. On this particular day I took Amtrak from my home in New Jersey to my uncle's house in D... (more)

Conrail HA16 passes Delaware & Hudson NE87 on the west end of Allentown Yard in Allentown Pennsylvania. The day is February 11, 1978 and my dad and I had been railfanning in the gorgeous sun since... (more)

Back on January 25, 2005, I spent a bit of time along the BNSF main in Pico Rivera, California (San Bernardino Sub). The Third Rivera came out of the erstwhile Pico Rivera Yard with a ATSF GP30 an... (more)

Conrail train #3307 on the North Jersey Coast Line (fka the New York & Long Branch) picks up speed south of South Amboy New Jersey in the afternoon of March 30, 1978. The consist included two ratt... (more)

January 3, 1982 finds two Penn Central E8As in Elizabethport NJ, possibly being used as parts sources, or just being left to rot. PC 4321 (with multiple worms in love on the nose) and PC 4270, wit... (more)

I was driving from St. Louis to Chicago, in a persistent but light rain. It was November 4, 1986, where traveling north on I-55, I saw the only Illinois Central Gulf train I would actually ever se... (more)

When a snowstorm forced me to change my routing on a drive from LA to Philadelphia, I found myself in Dodge City, KS, where I found this 45t and two ex Missouri Pacific dome cars (painted for thei... (more)

On April 17, 1979, my friend Paul Wester and his dad Pete Wester took me on a roadtrip to Horseshoe Curve. Back in those days, climbing over and around the hills there was far more acceptable. Her... (more)

SNCF passenger train races through Juan Les Pins France on August 2, 1982. Power is BB-22200 #22332. I was traveling through France with some college friends and seeing trains left and right that ... (more)

I was attending a summer school workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA back in June of 1994. As with many of my pre-internet trip, I arrived with zero knowledge of what the local rail... (more)

By 1980 the RS1s were pretty much relegated to the Edgewater Branch. Today, both the branch and the RS1s are gone, the track is River Road, and the Ford Plant is River Club Apartments. That blue b... (more)

April 29, 1978, Allentown PA - the unique high-short hood LV RS3 (which they acquired from corporate parent Pennsylvania Railroad), was still in her LV colors, be it with stenciled "CR" and Conrai... (more)