Daybreak Came Late

The morning was awful--wet, dreary, raining, and very grey. By the time the train had finished loading at Leslie Tipple, though, it had burned off to a blazingly h... (more)

Student Engineer, Dakota Martin is at the helm for the very first time with veteran engineer, Bud Beach enjoying the ride as NBER-3 rumbles over Bald Eagle Creek on the way to Lock Haven. Fly ... (more)

NS 14M crosses over the Bayfront Connector as it heads East in Erie, PA. This bridge was built as part of the bypass constructed to eliminate the street running of the NS mainline through Erie. Th... (more)

The stars and stripes atop #89 wave in the breeze as the Strasburg Rail Road commemorates Memorial Day 2018 by re-dressing Canadian National Mogul #89 into a U.S. Transportation Corps locomotive.

B&P coal empties cross a rain swollen Connoquenessing Creek over a high bridge on the west end of Ellwood City, PA.

Varnish at West Falls

Conrail’s Office Car Special traverses the former Reading bridge at West Falls, Pennsylvania. The train has left Philadelphia, and is entering the West Tren... (more)

Back in Service. In late 1988, an up-turn in rail business forced Conrail to pull some GP30 and GP35 units out of storage. One of the re-activated GP30s is shown leading a coal train. ... (more)

P&WV (WE) 101 brings up the tail end of W&LE train 612 across Banning Bridge spanning the Yough Valley and a frozen, tundra like Youghiogheny River.

A Little Bit South (and East) of Saskatoon: Headed back to the oil fields of Saskatchewan via Chicago, 3 CN motors pull empty oil cans across the CSX Pittsburgh Sub and the Beaver River nor... (more)

The star of the 1988 Blue Mountain & Reading’s 1988 Railfan Weekend was Reading Company Technical & Historical Society’s newly-restored Reading C630. Here the big Alco poses for photographers ... (more)

Morning fog is still hanging over much of the valley near Sprankle Mills, Pennsylvania as the Pittsburg & Shawmut train from Brookville takes empty hoppers to the mines. Fortunately the sun has bu... (more)

The Pittsburg & Shawmut’s daily train from Brookville to Mahoning, Pennsylvania sometimes could be loaded or empty hoppers, depending on the varied needs and production of the mines along the li... (more)

A SEPTA AEM7 pushes a train across the Delaware River at Yardley, Pa. Just ahead is the last stop on the line at West Trenton, N.J.

Bessemer & Lake Erie 905, 866, and 901 leads the ore train south across the huge bridge over the Allegheny River at Harmar Township, Pennsylvania.