A High Iron fall colors special with the NKP 759 in trailing position traverses Helmstetter's.

Picking up a couple rolls of Kodachrome II K25 on the fly, and with a borrowed camera, the photographer made a side trip from a funeral back home in N.J. to capture the last day of the LV and EL i... (more)

The photographer was back home in NJ for a funeral when he decided to make a side trip to photograph the last day of the LV and EL in eastern PA/NY before becoming fallen flags and part of Conrail... (more)

The hogger waits for a hand signal to highball. PRR Class M1a.

Taken the summer the MTA became the MBTA, appears to be a fantrip.

A few weeks later and the MTA would become the MBTA.

Westbound hotshot #57 gets out of Silvis on this autumn 1974 day.

The LHR 24, as exposed on a roll of Kodachrome's finest, ended up on the Conrail roster and finally on A&M as #54 where it still serves today. In this scene she takes a breather between runs. Th... (more)

Subbing for an ailing NKP 759, N&W 1733 pitches in to rescue a High Iron special and run the rest of the way into Roanoke.

The old PRR/N&W coaling tower serves as focal point for a PC B-boat and PRR tender. The tender was used for fuel storage in it's post steam service days, the coal tower came down in the early 80s... (more)

"Houston, we have a problem..." The crew of the High Iron team eyeball a development with the left front cylinder that will cripple it for the remainder of the trip. By this time, N&W SD45 #171... (more)

Just in from Muskegon, #56 eases in to Brush St. station. This was a daily train, departing Muskegon at 12:05pm and arriving Brush St. at 6pm.

A manifest rolls by fans waiting for a more inviting photographic capture, the Nickel Plate 759, to pass by on a High Iron Special. The N&W signal maintainer has done a good job of keeping the re... (more)

A Hagerstown-Roanoke High Iron special crosses from Maryland into West Virginia, above hallowed ground visible through winter foliage near some of the bloodiest Civil War battle sites. General Le... (more)

As if being spotted specially for the youthful photographers John Dziobko and Bill Rosenberg, B&O Mountain-type T-3b 5581 gets turned on the table at Robey St. Yard. Unlike Pennsy, B&O steam was ... (more)