The Gulf Oil SEPTA scheme (named because of its similarity to the Gulf Oil sign) didn't last all that long. Back at the time I took this shot it actually seemed kind of dashing, but I was lost in ... (more)

This was the first of three (or maybe four) trips I would take to 69th Street in Upper Darby, where the oldest of interurban style trolley cars were still running. This "St. Louie" looks... (more)

CSX SD70ACe 4831 leads Q619 across NS in Atlanta, Georgia after having a route cleared from CP Spring to East Point where it'll pickup the home rails of the A&WP/WofA Subdivision. The Georgia Sta... (more)

For a couple months in 1977, just before the end of all MP54s on Conrail's commuter lines, a pair of the old cars replaced the normal Jersey Arrow on the Princeton Dinky (aka PJ & B - Princeton Ju... (more)

Train "El Rosarino" from Retiro to Rosario City, the largest city in the province of Santa Fe.

The "741" job heads up the Harbor Sub with a long train bound for two of the major South Bay refineries.

Northbound HMCR 8933 has just brought 11 covered hoppers into the crowded HMCR yard in downtown Huntsville, AL. The switcher will soon be cut off from the cars and will be parked for remainder of... (more)

Let's all go to Spooner! CNW 6859 departs Spooner, WI in May of 1992 with a train bound for Itasca Yard in Superior.

A BNSF train is going away with two DPUs on the back, heading over the triple crossing at Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City. The view is from the World War I memorial across from Union Station.

Leasers…add Life!

Paraphrasing the familiar mid-‘70’s Coca-Cola advertising slogan from the billboard in the photo, one of the ways that the drab monotony of the ex-PC power... (more)

SSW 6876 leads a freight near Mojave, CA in May of 1994.

NJT 4525 is pushing Raritan Valley Line train 5440 toward Penn Station Newark. The train is viewed on the Lehigh Line, passing Weequahic Park.

CP/D&H train 701, empty sulfuric acid tank cars, has arrived from Baltimore at CSX’ East Side Yard in Philadelphia. The power, an all-MLW M636/C424/M636 lashup, has uncoupled from its train so t... (more)

Baretables in Commerce

BNSF Railway train B-LACLAC3-11 (a baretable train that operated from Hobart Yard near Los Angeles to Fullerton, where it picked up the cars, and back) leaves ... (more)

Rolling up the Hudson River! The United Railroad Historical Society of NJ -URHS operated an excursion on Sunday, November 6, 2016 (a repeat of Saturday's trip) from New York Pennsylvania Station t... (more)