Eastbound Sea-Land stack train NTV-4 passes the site of the Erie yard in Deposit, New York. The Agway building has been a landmark for decades.

In 1985, the New York, Susquehanna and Western acquired the former Lehigh & Hudson River between Franklin and Sparta Junction, New Jersey. It already held title to the L&HR main between Franklin a... (more)

Eastbound Susquehanna stack train NTV-4 is pulled onto the NYS&W Northern Division in Binghamton, New York. Conrail would not permit Susquehanna crew changes on the Southern Tier main line, so NYS... (more)

A work train rolls through the yard at Utrecht, Netherlands. The locomotive on the right is switching vintage rolling stock in preparation for the celebration of the Dutch Railways’ sesquicenten... (more)

Two Monongahela Railway Super 7’s pull a train of coal from Federal #2 mine through Bula, West Virginia. This is at the extreme far end of the Waynesburg Southern line from West Brownsville.

Flying white flags Maryland Midland’s Union Bridge – Highfield turn rounds the horseshoe curve at Sabillasville, Maryland. The train has picked up quite a few interchange cars in Highfield.

A Maryland Midland waits on his SD24 while his conductor exchanges waybills with the operator at the Western Maryland office in Highfield, Maryland.

Maryland Midland SD24 6252 pauses next to the Western Maryland office in Highfield, Maryland. On the right is the former WM East Subdivision, which was spun off to the MMID between here and Emory ... (more)

An early Maryland Midland westbound train is in the middle of the horseshoe curve in Sabillasville, Maryland. The leading cars are all MMID covered hoppers.

Maryland Midland’s westbound train is seen crossing over the Maryland highway 550 as it climbs the Catoctin Mountains west of Thurmont, Maryland.

EMD’s SD24 was sold to customers in the west and the southeast, but not the northeast. In 1984, some secondhand SD24’s finally penetrated the northeast when the fledgling Maryland Midland boug... (more)

When the Lehigh Valley bought C628’s from Alco in 1965, they were delivered in a striking white, black and red paint scheme and were dubbed “snowbirds” by the local fans. Variants of the sno... (more)

Built in 1937, this Detroit, Toledo & Ironton round roof was near the end of its career in 1981, seen here in Lima, Ohio.

Early morning in Phippsburg, Colorado finds a cushioned underframe, double door, fifty foot box car in the most iconic Rio Grande paint scheme at the end of a cut of cars.

The Colorado Fuel & Iron steel mill looms on the horizon over Santa Fe’s CF&I local returning to the Santa Fe yard in Pueblo, Colorado. The train is seen crossing the Salt Creek just east of the... (more)