The Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society's annual Fall Foliage excursion to Sayers Dam has just left the station in downtown Bellefonte and is ambling past the historic Gamble Mill. This is the... (more)

D-L's deadline is always changing and always interesting. Leading the line is a GP8. Delivered new to the Delaware Lackawanna & Western as #959 as a GP7. Then Erie Lackawanna 1278. It made it to... (more)

PREX GP8 #800 along with PREX GP20 #2017, sit at their headquarters in New Albany, MS. Awaiting their next move

PREX GP8 #805 (former Illinois Central) sits on the Redmont & Red Bay Railway in Red Bay, AL. Awaiting its next assignment

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)

The Nittany & Bald Eagle arrives at Tyrone and will swap cars with NS.

On the Wall

NBER 1603 leads its way on to Washington Avenue in Tyrone. This branch-turned-shortline began life as the PRR-backed Bald Eagle Valley Railroad and features this unique s... (more)

The Nittany & Bald Eagle railroad's road switcher idles in the yard as Amtrak's eastbound "Pennsylvanian" (#42) slows to make what was about a 10 second stop at the platform in Tyrone.

They're Coming Offa the Wall!

Nittany & Bald Eagle 1603 and North Shore 2012 work their charge off 'the wall' on to Washington Avenue in Tyrone, PA on the former PRR Bald Eagle Bran... (more)

Illinois Central Gulf GP8 #7738 shoves the Bluegrass Railway Museum's excursion train underneath the former Southern/NS signal bridge from control point "Rosemont", approaching the Museu... (more)

As Conrail retired the Alco road switchers that held many of the Lehigh Valley area local assignments, replacements came in the form of rebuilt GP8’s. Conrail 5458 began life as Erie GP7 1241.

Former ICG 7738, a GP8 Paducah Rebuild, charges under the old Rosemont signal bridge at the Bluegrass Railroad Museum during a members night. Both locomotive and signal represent unique items ass... (more)

The Iowa Interstate Railroad is a mere 4 months old when this freight with a quartet of ex-IC(G) Paducah rebuilt EMD's thunders west out of Wilton, IA. The IAIS has risen from the ashes of the Ro... (more)

After dropping off some hopper cars at Graymont in Pleasant Gap, the crew heads back to the enginehouse in Coleville, passing the old PRR passenger station in downtown Bellefonte.

Nittany & Bald Eagle #1602 leads two other engines out of the yard past an old western styled house at Bellefonte, PA. The third engine, Lycoming Valley #2016, is in fresh paint and resembles a Re... (more)