Streamliners on the Main Line

Arguably the best looking train to travel the PRR main line west of Philadelphia since the more prosperous days of the Pennsy was Conrail’s office c... (more)

Still bearing the New Haven logo on its nose, Penn Central E40 4974 rumbles out of the Park Avenue tunnel at 97th Street with a northbound passenger run. On April 8,1970, a few hints of spring hov... (more)

A pair of SDP40Fs in the later styling head up the Coast Starlight as it prepares for departure from Seattle's King St. Station. The units are blocking the southbound main track, thus a BN transfe... (more)

The Reading station in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, now long gone, was still intact during the Reading sesquicentennial celebration in 1983. Here a Reading – Pottsville excursion to celebrate the even... (more)

A four-car set of Penn Central Metroliners now operated by Amtrak reaches for the wires as the train hums along at Iselin, NJ, on its way from New York to Washington. In early 1972 Amtrak was stil... (more)

On a cold winter day, Amtrak F40 208 is ready to depart Boston's South Station with a Washington-bound corridor train. A complete reconstruction of the station was imminent, and today high level p... (more)

B&O GM50 Newcastle, PA. July 10,1978. Perhaps the most distinctive unit on the Chessie roster was GM50. Delivered as part of the initial order of GP40-2's, it was painted to commemorate GM's 50t... (more)

Two of the Reading's ten Alco Century 424s lead a Philadelphia-bound piggyback train through Abrams Yard outside Norristown, PA.

There must not have been too much traffic on Kellogg Boulevard, as my father was able to record this going away photo of the Rock Island train from the previous upload (FA-1m 136, F7a 107, and Eri... (more)

Conrail Business Train. Conrail E8 #4020 leads a 4 car "Office Car Special" through the snow at White Haven, PA. The train is on ex Lehigh Valley rails, with the old Jersey Cent... (more)

Emerging from one of the many tunnels that defined the Pacific Extention, a Joe has tonnage moving west along US12 and the Clark Fork River nearing Alberton on this dreary September 1967 day.

The eastbound Mainstreeter is crossing Clark Fork Bridge at Bonner on this September 1967 portrait of the usual matched set of F9's doing the honors.

From a vantage point that Lewis & Clark would themselves have appreciated, an eastbound trundles over the Clark Fork River bridge nearing Bonner.