On a chilly November morning, the Reading & Northern Fall Foliage train pulls out of the Port Clinton station on its way to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
Ontario Southland F-units 1401 and 6508 pass Putnam with tankers while working the St Thomas job. The railway maintains three operational EMD F-units dating from 1954. Since they do not see a hug... (more)
When is a tunnel not a tunnel? While not a "traditional" tunnel, this is the railroad's way of getting under PA 93. Looks like a tunnel to me. And a great photo spot.
270 now wears the fourth coat of paint I have seen on it in my lifetime. An Outer Station Reading-Jim Thorpe special is heading north thru the otherwise unknown burg of Molino, just north of Port... (more)
Three of four passenger trains running for the fall foliage season are seen here, with the JTOS backing into the station aster the LGSR departs with the JTPI waiting its turn. JTOS will actually ... (more)
A spectacularly soggy Saturday is still better spent trackside in PA than anything I can think of in the fall. A Fall Foliage special from Outer Station Reading is easing into the Port Clinton de... (more)
A Reading and Northern fall foliage excursion returns to Reading just after sunset. It was led by F9A 270 which was one of the Norfolk Southern's executive units.
OKLAHOMA CITY (July) 1976 — MKT FP7 78C lays over at Turner Yard after arrival from McAlester OK. Its next trip will take it back to McAlester as the trailing unit. Note what is left of the coal... (more)
In a panned photograph, LTV Mining (former Erie Mining Company) EMD F9A No 4212 leads an empty ore train west through Cramer, Minnesota, on September 24, 1994.
A crew member enjoys some fresh air from the window on NP F-9A Extra 7004A West. The tonnage freight makes its way upgrade near milepost 121, about five miles west of Livingston, on June 5, 19... (more)
Second Life Paint. VIA 6309 (née-CN 6528, FP9A, GMD, 3/1957) was selected for restoration, but in the paint scheme of its second owner. The large letters and bright yellow and blue were sy... (more)
OKLAHOMA CITY OK June 13 2023 — OKRX F9A 814 is inside the Oklahoma Railway Museum’s (ORM) Jim Murray Shop Building. EMD built the unit in September 1954 as Northern Pacific 7003-D. At the mer... (more)
Modern Power At Strasburg. On Sunday, June 14, 2015, Norfolk Southern F9A 4270 (née-BO 937, EMD, F7A, 1/1952), was trailing as it was towed across Ronks Road in Ronks Pennsylvania. Along w... (more)
Reading and Northern's F9A 270 leads the return leg of the Pittston to Jim Thorpe inaugural excursion through Solomon's Gap in Mountain Top PA.
Aberdeen Carolina & Western train 900 in Pinehurst
