A Bruce Van Sant original Kodachrome slide from my collection
With a Conrail freight waiting in the siding, repainted GG1 #4877 leads the "Farewell too the GG1" special on the Port Road at Safe Harbor. The massive bridge is the PRR Atglen & Susque... (more)
Although we'll never again see fallen-flag boxcars rumbling across the great PRR bridge at Safe Harbor, we soon might be able to walk across it. The conversion of the long-abandoned bridge to hik... (more)
Conrail's Pittsburgh to Morrisville manifest freight is crossing the massive 1904-built bridge over the Conestoga River. The bridge was an integral part of the PRR's Atglen & Susquehanna Branch; ... (more)
Few photo locations would dwarf a pair of GG-1s, but Safe Harbor's vast amphitheater ringed by the river, steep verdant cliffs, sprawling electrical infrastructure, and monstrous bridgework could ... (more)
An ex-Pennsy caboose brings up the rear of a ballast train as it wends its way westward on the Columbia & Port Deposit Branch in the vast amphitheater of the Susquehanna Valley. The train is cros... (more)
An eastbound Conrail coal train on the Columbia & Port Deposit Branch is dwarfed by its surroundings as it rumbles along the swollen Susquehanna River by the 1931-built Safe Harbor Dam. Note how ... (more)
The CR 4608 and its sister 4607 lead an eastbound manifest freight across the lower part of the unique two-level Safe Harbor Bridge over the Conestoga River. These 3,300 hp motors were built by G... (more)
The CR 4861 East and a yellow-striped sister fly high above the Susquehanna River on the way to Parkesburg and beyond. Safe Harbor dam is seen in the lower left, almost 150 feet below the rails o... (more)
Conrail's Pittsburgh to Morrisville freight crosses the massive 1905-built bridge over the Conestoga River near Safe Harbor Dam. The old PRR Atglen & Susquehanna Branch is now a rail-trail, but t... (more)
A very rare daylight train heads up the Susquehanna River by the infamous Safe Harbor Dam and the dual bridges over the Conestoga River. The bridge on top was once part of PRR's Atglen & Susquehan... (more)
NS 897 coming through the Harbors NS Port Road
2 GP-30s and a GP-38 on a freight on the C&P