Car #1740 reaches the end of the line in the 1500 block of Brookline Boulevard, and will soon negotiate the turn-around on the Trolley Loop, which the photographer stands in the center of, to head... (more)

A '65 Ford Galaxie 500 pulls up to car #1787 before they both turn onto the Smithfield St. bridge over the Monongahela.

A surf-green Chevy Impala Coupe pulls up alongside Rte 42/38 car 1773, both heading downtown. Broad gauge 5ft. 2-1/2in.

A "President" class P7c leads a passenger train past John's camera on the south side. This shot is a followup to an earlier upload, click on "BO 5309" above to link to it. The Chicago Can Compan... (more)

A "President" class P7c leads a passenger train past John's camera on the south side, the hogger about to acknowledge him. #5309 was "President Polk", and by this date must have been relegated to... (more)

At the the B&OCT roundhouse (out of the view on the right), hi-tech steam thorobred 5571, a class T-3a-c 4-8-2 is spotted for service. More Chicago B&O steam is found at Railroad: Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad
Locomotive: Alco S2
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Locomotive #: BOCT 517
Train ID: Hostle move
Photo Date: August 12, 1956

In South Beach for a little R&R over the holidays, the Godfather manages to squeeze in a little railfanning on the wrong side of the tracks. This photo was taken due SW of downtown, today I-395 c... (more)

A Red Arrow car moves past John's camera on the Sharon Hill line-pre SEPTA. More PST scenes are available at GodfatherRails.com

Punchbuggy! Before SEPTA, the Red Arrow Line train with car #73 rolls past John's camera. From the looks of some of the riders, probably a fantrip over regularly scheduled run. We'll call this ... (more)

A leased Santa Fe 5000-series locomotive is readied for service at the PRR facility in Columbus. The oil tank cars on the right were brought in for fueling these oil-burners, PRR used coal exclus... (more)

A WM excursion to Gettsburg, May 1955, gets ready to depart. Scheduled passenger service to Gettysburg ended 12/31/42. This view is one of a group of restored Ansco-Color slides in a collection ... (more)

A 1955 PRR K4-led train took riders to the WM. At Gettysburg they take a few shots of their train now powered by Alco RS-3s. The first car in the otherwise all-PRR passenger consist is a WM ca... (more)

This lumber was manufactured into wooden spools that utility companies would wrap wire on prior to intallation overhead poles. (Ed: later many would be recycled into coffee-table use, from person... (more)

Like a Hershey's Kiss. 5900-5901 original Class 2[A1A-A1A]20E, delivered September 1945.

#52 and comrades get serviced. John was too preoccupied with a warbonnet PA to snap off a shot of that engine on the left, new and unique to the SF, a FM H12-44TS, one of three purchased that yea... (more)