Three D&H U33C’s, with a GP39-2 thrown in for good measure, pass the DL&W coaling tower as they bring a southbound freight into East Binghamton yard.

Bethlehem Steel’s Grace Mine in Joanna, PA provided countless trainloads of iron ore for the company’s main steelmaking plant in Bethlehem, PA. Joanna was located on the Reading’s Wilmington... (more)

Got IT! Conrail Block Operator Jim Largent has successfully conveyed a Form D to Conrail conductor Mike Quigley at Derry Road in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Form D authority would take the ALPI-0... (more)

It's Black Friday, 1975 version, as it is the day after Thanksgiving when I watched Erie Lackawanna employees rerail 3 cars in Hoboken using 2 derricks. There was no Hulcher or RJ Corman at this ... (more)

One of seven GG1s painted in Amtrak's "Platinum Mist" scheme, the 909 pauses briefly at Lancaster's 1929-built high-level platform with the westbound Broadway Limited. (The other six G... (more)

Changes are in the offing for Conrail's Columbia Branch, as a westbound freight waits on a crew at Spring Street. Before too long, the catenary system will be removed, and the old PRR jointed-rai... (more)

A set of locomotives has just arrived from a Bethlehem Steel train

The end is near for GG1-powered passenger trains between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, as the fireman looks to the rear to watch the carman prepare for the uncoupling. The 4935 would have the hono... (more)

Conrail block operator Jim Largent is in position to hoop up a NORAC Form D movement authority to the approaching Conrail train NSSE-3 - a train that at the time operated from Linwood, NC to Selki... (more)

In a cloud of brakeshoe smoke the caboose bringing up the rear of DRGW 5337 west descends the steep three percent grade of Tennessee Pass at the old siding site of Mitchell.

When this slide was taken, I recall one or 2 trains arriving at Long Island City with FA power packs on the west end. All of the other diesel powered arrivals had to be set over and have their uni... (more)

Reading Railroad 0-4-0 Camelback #1187, aka; Strasburg #4. This engine last ran at the Strasburg Rail Road in May of 1967. It was later loaned to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania across the s... (more)

Another of a seemingly endless string of Conrail manifests arrives from Harrisburg on a warm March day. Visible in the upper right beyond the train is the dead line, where many not-yet-scrapped tr... (more)

A Phillies Baseball Special is ready to depart from behind the old JFK (Municipal) Stadium, in the shadow of I-95. This was a doubleheaded GG1-powered all-Amfleet train from Harrisburg. Most bas... (more)