The pair of owl-eyed MP54 MUs that comprised the Princeton shuttle lays over between trips at Penn Centrak's Princeton Junction station. This short New Jersey branch was one of the last regular as... (more)

In one of my first photos as a young teenage railfan, a pair of Conrail E44 electrics speed eastbound through a heavy snowstorm. The train is operating on the '"Trenton Cut Off', a 48 mile l... (more)

Amtrak Service to Lansdale, Pennsylvania

Before taking delivery of seven AEM7’s, SEPTA wanted to test one of the electrics on the Reading side of its service, to see if that elec... (more)

Wearing Conrail blue paint, an E44 electric goes solo with a westbound intermodal train. The train is operating on the '"Trenton Cut Off', a 48 mile line built by the PRR to allow trains bet... (more)

A pair of Conrail E33 electrics rest between assignments at the Morrisville engine house. These units began life on the Virginian

For a few years in the 1990’s I worked in downtown Philadelphia, and commuted from the western suburbs on the former PRR main line. There were three trains that left downtown at the end of the w... (more)

A westbound late-afternoon SEPTA train approaches its station stop at Strafford, Pennsylvania. With its Victorian gingerbread architecture, the former PRR station at Strafford is one of the Pennsy... (more)

Running on borrowed time, SEPTA AEM-7 2305 flies through Eddystone with an express on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.

Train time at Paoli, 1975, as the Kansas City-bound "National Limited" slows to a halt. This train, which also served Columbus, Indianapolis, and St. Louis, was discontinued in 1979.

A long southbound train of heritage equipment behind a "bloody-nose" GG-1 rumbles into 30th Street on the old PRR jointed rail. The locomotive is one of the seven GG-1s painted in Amtra... (more)

Regular SEPTA R6 commuters are awed by the 425 bringing in a load of shoppers from South Hamburg on a Friday-after-Thanksgiving excursion. Note the Blue Mountain & Reading's RDC cars being used a... (more)

At Bethayres, PA, the SEPTA diesel powered line to Newtown, PA crossed the electrified West Trenton Line at a diamond. On a nice spring morning in 1981, a 2 car RDC train from Newtown is about to... (more)

A Doylestown-bound train departs Lansdale with a five car set of Silverliner IV EMUs.

Early E-60 action, without a windshield grille. No. 953 leads a heavy southbound into 30th Street, with its pantograph depressed to a low level to clear the covered platforms. The high headlight... (more)

A Center City-bound train departs Lansdale with a four car set of Silverliner IV EMUs. This train originated in Doylestown at the northern end of the line.