GM’s Everywhere

There are GM automobiles as far as the eye can see in the open racks of a train approaching Tunnelhill, Pennsylvania at Bennington Curve. On the next track, Santa... (more)

You can feel winters chill, from just looking at this picture of the Zephyr. It's the early morning at Colton, Utah 1978 in the Price River Canyon (Tom Ellis photo)

A little over a year after the Reading & Northern acquired the former Reading main line west of Reading, the “mountain job” rolls into Gordon, Pennsylvania after serving its westernmost custom... (more)

Rolling though Kittredge, Illinois, in November 1984, is a westbound Milwaukee Road freight train powered by a trio of EMD GP40 locomotives. Kittredge, on the Chicago to Savanna main line, is the ... (more)

Amtrak train 48, the eastbound Lake Shore Limited, originated in Chicago the previous day. Traveling along the shore of Lake Erie much of the way (thought Ohio, a sliver of Pennsylvania an... (more)

Departing Allentown yard, Reading GP35 3641 leading two B&O GP40's in June 1973. Photo from my collection, no photographer name on slide.

Reading SD45 7603 with GP30 3619 leading a freight train near Reading, PA in 1973. Unknown photographer, slide from my collection)

Three SP F7's A-B-A set wearing black widow paint scheme, on helper duty at Truckee, California in January 1955. Don Hansen photo from my collection.

A gleaming set of C&O F-units in their high-wave paint scheme, on lead of the Chicago Division's freight train in this 1960 view at Hegewisch, Illinois. Photographer E.L Huddleston, from my colle... (more)

CB&Q F3A 124-A, F3B, F7B & F7A to create a combine 6000hp consist eastbound at Neponset, Illinois in July 1963. In tow was train 88 bound for Cicero, Illinois. Photo from my collection, Photograph... (more)

The roundhouse at Conrail’s Conway Yard is mostly empty, but the outside turntable tracks are teeming with six-axle Alco Centuries assigned to drag freight service. Colors of the Lehigh Valley, ... (more)

In this Walter Schopp photo from my collection, a former New Haven EP5 is seen meeting an Amtrak passenger train led by a GG1 near Morrisville, PA.

At Rahway, a PRR BP20 is seen running light past the station platforms. In the distance, a GG1 led TV freight is seen approaching.

Power from the southbound Orange Blossom Special emerges from one of the tunnels under the intersection of 34th Street and Gray’s Ferry Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The EMD’s w... (more)

Having just crossed the Ohio River from Cincinnati, L&N 241 does some street running around the intersection of 6th & Saratoga.