The Beginning of the End

A westbound oil train climbs the east slope of the Alleghenies, passing up the silent sentinel of the mountain, MG tower. The interlocking and tower were ins... (more)

Racing thru the Cove

Everett 11 races down the Cove Secondary towards Martinsburg, going as fast as her diminutive drivers will carry her. Or...not. Pans do wonders for creating illu... (more)

The Sun Sets on the Virginia Creeper

The sun hangs low over the countryside outside Abingdon, Virginia. Mixed train 202 is returning from a day on the Abindgon Branch, or as it is lo... (more)

Ghost of the Virginia Creeper

A 3 hour late train 202 accelerates over a small concrete overpass bound for Abingdon, and later Bristol, where the engine will be serviced and banked u... (more)

Rare Mileage (Or Monkey See, Monkey Do)

The Everett Railroad's normal passenger excursions run either to Brooks Mills or Roaring Spring. They never go further south towards Claysburg... (more)

Juniata Nights, City Lights

The companion photo to this photo and my 100th contribution to this database provides an... (more)

A Step Back in Time, the Other Way

EV 11 drifts across the river on the return to Hollidaysburg. This engine is only turned once per year--during an annual 23 mile excursion to the w... (more)

Smell that Fresh Paint!

One from the archives today! I recall standing on the North 8th Street Bridge in Altoona waiting on a westbound power move lead by the Wabash heritage unit wh... (more)

Helper at Hyndman

A lone Dash 8 shoves on the end of an autorack train over the bridge in Hyndman, PA near the end of fall (though the amount of green still on the trees would say o... (more)

Cleanup, Aisle Hyndman

A CSX Autorack train rolls thru Hyndman, PA on an October afternoon. The bare earth and construction equipment in front of the tracks are part of the continuin... (more)

Time Marches On

The days of the PRR Position Light Signal are numbered. With the implementation of PTC on the Pittsburgh Line picking up pace, line-side automatic block signals will ... (more)

Under the Bridge

Autorack 27N rolls under the Old US 220 Overpass at Grazierville, about halfway from Tyrone to Tipton. When the road was expanded in the late 1930s, this bridge was ... (more)

A Critter Keeps Earning

Union Tank Car's Altoona facility keeps an anachronistic piece of power around. While most repair facilities opt solely for a trackmobile these days, UTLX kee... (more)

The Works

Autorack 27N rolls thru CP WORKS in Altoona. The railcar facility in the immediate background began life as the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Car Shop, and today is opera... (more)

Auto Racks, Auto Salvage

A GEVO heads up at KCS Southern Belle, bringing a train of empty auto racks by Tyrone Auto Salvage. While the racks are empty, the salvage yard is quite full... (more)