NS 64T rounds the curve at the former Valley Forge Reading Railroad station with NS's flagship SD70ACC leading.

Stealth Operation on the Waterfront

A CSX SW1500 in the company’s most unpopular paint scheme works at Pier 78 in Philadelphia. The trackage on Columbus Avenue was jointly served... (more)

Conrail was the second-largest purchaser of the SD50, rostering 135 of the big EMD’s. Here one of them leads an eastbound coal train through Bridgeport, Pennsylvania on the former Reading main l... (more)

Cold Front: Acela Express #2165 creates a scene reminiscent of the steam-heated passenger trains of yesteryear as it kicks up snow while passing through Trenton during a winter storm on Fe... (more)

Westbound Conrail tonnage rolls through Bridgeport, Pennsylvania on the former Reading main line. Lead unit 6440 is one of ten SD40-2’s and ten C30-7’s that were purchased new in 1977 and trac... (more)

On July 9, 1988, the Blue Mountain and Reading ran an excursion from Reading to Philadelphia on Conrail’s Philadelphia main. Reading T-1 2102 was featured, and Reading Technical & Historical Soc... (more)

After the crew has ensured that there will be no derailments due to ice and snow in the switch, Conrail’s North Penn local spots a car in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.

The crew of Conrail’s North Penn local inspect their work after clearing the snow and ice out of the switchpoints of a siding that they’re about to serve.

The first light of dawn breaks on a late-running Amtrak Northeast Regional train 160 hustling to make up time. She kicks up yesterday's snowfall under a classic PRR signal bridge.

SEPTA’s AEM7 test train has been reconfigured to point south, and is now leaving Lansdale to return to Philadelphia.

With its train of five blueliners in the Lansdale holding yard, the Amtrak AEM7 being tested by SEPTA has coupled to the opposite end of the MU cars, and is preparing to return to Philadelphia.

Blueliners and Silverliners

Two generations of the former Reading electrification stand in the holding yard at Lansdale, Pennsylvania. To the left is a five-car Lineup of Blueliner... (more)

In anticipation of delivery of seven AEM7’s, SEPTA wanted to test the new locomotives’ burden on its electrical distribution supplying the former Reading electrification. A Sunday, the slowest... (more)

Nickel Plate 765 rolls into Pottstown, Pennsylvania on the former Reading main line. The well-travelled Berkshire is leading an excursion that came down the Reading’s New York line from Bound Br... (more)

In the midst of a late Winter storm, an Amtrak Acela Express barrels down the Corridor picking up speed through Croydon, PA after navigating through a reverse S-curve in Bristol Township.