Rails to (the) Trails

Or.... whoa, not yet, lol! SEPTA's former Reading line from Ewing, NJ to Philadelphia is in no danger of become a bike trail thanks to its popularity with yearly r... (more)

A GE Silverliner IV pulls up to the former Reading Station in Ewing, NJ (aka: West Trenton) to board passengers the journey East to into Pennsylvania bound for Philadelphia's 30th Street Station.

A SEPTA push-pull commuter train led by AEM-7 No. 2307 makes a late afternoon arrival in Malvern, PA. A surviving PRR station built in 1900 (seen Railroad: SEPTA
Locomotive: ASEA AEM-7
Location: Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: SPAX 2307
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 11, 2018

SEPTA's ALP-44 No. 2308 makes an appearance at rush hour pushing a set of Bombardier cars, one with an Eagles banner, from 30th Street Station over the PRR built viaduct and into the Center City C... (more)

SEPTA's lone ALP-44 No. 2308 with a push/pull set pushes east out of Somerton in northeast Philadelphia bound for West Trenton, via Trevose, Langhorne, Woodbourne, and Yardley.

SEPTA Silverliner IV's meet a set of Silverliner V's under the massive, abandoned former PRR bridge by Whitford Station in Pennsylvania. The bridge was built in 1906 for the PRR and is a pin-conn... (more)

SEPTA's lone ALP-44 pushes a set of Horizon cars east through Woodbourne station in Langhorne, PA. The unit was received as part of a damage settlement for a lawsuit stemming from the late deliver... (more)

SEPTA AEM-7 No. 2301 prepares to depart Bethayres station in Huntingdon Valley, PA, along the West Trenton Line. The station to the far left was built in 1876 by the Reading Railroad and remains i... (more)

Norfolk Southern No. 5286, now in "Operation Lifesaver" livery, trails No. 5285 in a light engine move over the NEC captured here running westbound through Levittown, PA.

An Amtrak Acela Express roars past Hamilton station. The station sees a host of NJT trains and a limited number of Amtrak Regional Express trains.

New vs Old Catenary Supports

On a beautiful Fall day in 2017, an eight car Regional Express plies the rails through Hamilton Township just shy of Hamilton station in NJ. Above, a perf... (more)

An Amtrak Regional Express sprints through Hamilton Township, bypassing the station on the express track, bound for Trenton, NJ and points south.

An afternoon southbound Regional Express climbs the crest of a grade in Glenolden, PA passing substation No. 10, which was built by the PRR in 1928. Substations transform voltage from high to low... (more)

An Acela Express scrapes the morning mist from the catenary wires as it charges east through Hamilton, NJ.

An afternoon Amtrak Keystone bound for Harrisburg, PA sprints through Hamilton, NJ. Amtrak's Keystone trains run between New York, NY to Harrisburg, PA utilizing the NEC between NYC and Philadelp... (more)