Into the Rising Sun

NS 6980 drags an eastbound auto rack train over the diamond as the summer sun rises over Fostoria, OH.

What Parallel Universe is This?

It's 2017, and somehow Penn Central still exists, right down to using flimsies printed in the 60s. Not how most would want to run a railroad these day... (more)

In Her Natural Habitat

Nevada Northern 40 poses by the East Ely Depot, with the yard and coaling tower as a backdrop. The Nevada Northern is a unique place, with equipment and buildi... (more)

Easter Done Like Christmas

CNJ 115 (really 113 masquerading as her long-scrapped sister) pulls into the station at Minersville, PA to start loading passengers for the day's Easter Bu... (more)

Anthracite Country

Central of New Jersey #113 (disguised as long-scrapped sister 115) trundles over a swollen and obviously-polluted Little Schuylkill River outside Minersville. In t... (more)

Pride in Their Work

An enginehouse crew poses with Nevada Northern 40, showing a little pride in the dirty, thankless work of hosteling and maintaining these machines. This image ... (more)

Out of Place

The only piece of equipment in the Nevada Northern enginehouse that really seems out of place--and gives away that it's not the 1950s--is SD9 #204. Left here by the BHP ... (more)

Traffic Jam

PA Route 36 is a busy secondary highway, as it is the primary route between Altoona and Roaring Spring. The Everett Railroad crosses it in East Freedom, and every time it... (more)

The World Famous Horseshoe Curve

Grain train 50T wraps around the valley on the Horseshoe Curve. Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and opened to traffic in 1854, Horseshoe Curve fil... (more)

A Step Back in Time

Everett Railroad 2-6-0 #11 rolls over the Little Juniata River with a short passenger train in tow. This bridge is just remote enough to mask the fact that it is ... (more)

Resting at Riker

Work takes me places around Central Pennsylvania. I drive by the Buffalo & Pittsburgh's Riker Yard at least once a week, but this is the first time I've actually ru... (more)

Still Frosty

Stella may have passed the previous day, but light snow kept falling. Amtrak's Pennsylvanian looked a bit frigid as it made its bump-and-run stop at Tyrone while North ... (more)

Horse-powered Jet

NS 4004 leads a 747 to Shire Oaks. One of the first 6 AC446CM rebuilds, it wears the Juniata variant the 'horse mane' scheme introduced by 4000 and 4001.

Racing up the Mountain

NS 8114, in charge of 67T and with a fresh crew, started its run up the mountain only to be blind-sided by 21M on the approach to WORKS. The two trains would d... (more)

Fridginian

NS 1069 takes 12G under the PRR signals at Fostoria as the tail end of Winter Storm Stella continues to dump snow on Central Pennsylvania.