On a cold winter day, a loaded Western Maryland coal train arrives at Hagerstown, MD, behind an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 quartet. Here the pusher set on the rear that assisted it uphill from of the Potomac... (more)

In later years the Western Maryland's pair of EMD BL2s were assigned to yard jobs at Hagerstown, MD, paired with homemade slugs for extra tractive effort. WM 82, seen working here on a winter day ... (more)

Four CP switcher of the SW120RS class are joining their force to haul a freight train near Sudbury.

Re 430 # 112 of the Widmer Rail Services (WRS) is pulling a train of the Schorno Locomotive Management Gmbh (SLM) from Winterthur to Göschenen on the Gotthard mountain line above Wassen. The cars... (more)

SNCF, former Cf du Nord, 4-cylinder compound 4-6-0 No 230.D.89 stands at Fives locomotive Depot in Lille during an RCTS visit.Photo by the late Peter Gray.

SNCF, former Prussian (KPEV) G8-1 0-8-0 No 040.D.72 is about to be un-coupled from the 05.38 train from Dunkirk which it has brought from Lille. This train conveyed the through Wagon Lit sleeping ... (more)

A Guilford-era EMD trio leads Boston & Maine train MELA (Mechanicville, NY, to Lawrence, MA) eastbound at Ayer, MA. B&M GP39-2 351 works with ex-PC/CR GP40 328 and D&H GP39-2 7409.

Belgian Railways streamlined 4-4-2 No 12.003 has just arrived at Tournai with a train from Brussels. Just six of these unusual locomotives were built by Cockerill and were delivered in 1939. No 12... (more)

Belgian Railways three-cylinder 4-6-0 No 62.004 at Brussels Midi shed. This was a war reparations loco and was originally Prussian (KPEV) S10-2 No 1204 Cöln. Fifth-teen of these engines were hand... (more)

For over thirty years, before the Reading & Northern came to town, George Hart’s Rail Tours, Inc. provided excursions out of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Here passengers prepare to board a train pu... (more)

The Budd RDC-4 railcar #9250 is making a brief stop at the Sudbury station during a nice day in May 1981. To my understanding, this railcar has been built only to haul mail and baggage and was not... (more)

The CP switcher #8126 is waiting for her next duty in the Sudbury yard.