Ex-PRR SD45 6113 heads an eight units lashup of GE and GM products with a westbound freight at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
A freight rolls thru the Elizabeth Station with 3 GG-1's on the head end. Date is approximate.
A trio of Penn Central E44s march south on the long straightaway through Monmouth Junction, NJ, on the point of a westbound freight. This was still an active commuter stop, but the headless goosen... (more)
As the winter sun drops low, a pair of Penn Central GG1s speed north through Monmouth Junction, NJ, with a Washington-New York express. Off in the distance are an approaching pair of Jersey Arrow ... (more)
A solo Penn Central GG1 handles a southbound freight at Colonia, NJ, back when electric powered freight was still the rule on the PRR end of the Northeast Corridor and these classic beasts were an... (more)
After rush hour and the vestiges of the westbound passenger fleet – Nos. 31 and 49, "The Spirit of St. Louis" and "The Broadway Limited" - had departed, freight activity on t... (more)
The Penn-Central years were bleak years in many ways, from the appearance of locomotives to the state of decline that so epitomized the plight of northeastern railroading in that time. Nevertheles... (more)
Operator Dick Herr is entering information on the Station Record of Train Movements at the 1938 vintage Union Switch & Signal Co. CTC machine governing train movements from Glen Loch through Coate... (more)
Two Penn Central GG-1s lead an eastbound manifest down the Susquehanna Valley at the west end of Lake Siding, as seen from the aerie of Chickies Rock.
A train with a string of open auto rack cars swings thru Horseshoe Curve behind five (not 4) units in 1976.
Westbound on the Middle Division by "Jacks" Tower, located west of Mount Union, PA, on Valentines Day in 1976.
A pair of E33's have just entered the Corridor at Lane Tower and are now passing the platforms at North Elizabeth, NJ. Date is approximate.
Shot from Jacks Tower. A Roger Puta Photograph
Seldom-seen on the old PRR Main Line west of Lancaster were manifest freights, but here's one on a Saturday morning, less than a month before the inception of Conrail. The train is eastbound, app... (more)
A Roger Puta photograph.
