With the classic DL colors up front, a small PT98 Job clatters up the grade with a triple set of four axles on a hot June morning. Note the conductor's door open for cheap air conditioning for t... (more)

Charging up the 1% grade towards Pocono Summit, PT98 passes under the former DL&W signal Bridge at Elmhurst. This train will run all the way to Slateford Junction to interchange with the NS.

DL 3642 leads the Portland Turn under a former Lackawanna signal bridge at Elmhurst, PA.

Fall is coming to the Gap as the Portland bound turn passes through. The lead unit was originally purchased by the Lehigh Valley RR and looks right at home on this line.

The Portland Turn passes through the Delaware Water Gap on its way to Slateford Junction to pick up the Norfolk Southern interchange cars. The Appalachian Trail provides this view, which is about ... (more)

After making a stop in Analomink, PA the Portland Turn passes the former Lackawanna Tower in East Stroudsburg. I am standing next to the former station in East Stroudsburg, which just the week bef... (more)

After drilling the yard for close to 2 hours, the Portland Turn finally departs Scranton as the quintet of ALCOs pass the huge Lackawanna Station and under a former EL signal bridge.

On a beautiful Memorial Day weekend, DL 3642 thunders by the former Lackawanna Moscow Station headed for Slateford Jct.

The DL combined a grain train with PT98, with PT98's power back in the consist. The train split at Tobyhanna, and the grain train continued on to Pocono Summit while PT98 switched Tobyhanna before... (more)

RS32 211 leads PT98 southbound at Cresco

With grain for Mt. Pocono and empties for the NS at Slateford Jct a C-420, RS-11, C-425, C-425 lashup charges uphill.

EL Flashback! Two former Erie Lackawanna Alco Centuries lift the Delaware-Lackawanna's Portland Turn out of Scranton on a bitter cold January morning.

Freshly painted C420 #405, named for the late Chuck Riedmiller, is ready to depart Scranton with today's "Portland Turn". On an otherwise gloomy day, the clouds parted for a few seconds and the s... (more)