An assortment of Southern Pacific EMD power I visible in the SP engine terminal in Bakersfield, California. To the left is Daylight-painted SD40E 7342, which is in town to assist 4-8-4 4449 over T... (more)

A Southern Pacific GP9 passes the landmark Kern Junction tower near Bakersfield, California. This is the point where the SP and the Santa Fe come together for the eastbound climb to Tehachapi. The... (more)

A relatively short eastbound Southern Pacific perishable train descends Cajon Pass. This location is now known as Silverwood, and there is a connection between the westbound Santa Fe, seen to the ... (more)

Power for the southbound Orange Blossom Special threads its way into CSX’ East Side Yard in Philadelphia. After a CSX crew replaces the arriving Conrail crew, the mix of RF&P and CSX EMD’s ... (more)

Strasburg’s 4:15 Santa Express has just arrived back in Strasburg with a nearly sold-out train. The day is not over – another Santa Express has just departed, and two Night Before... (more)

Power from the southbound Orange Blossom Special emerges from one of the tunnels under the intersection of 34th Street and Gray’s Ferry Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The EMD’s will ... (more)

The southbound Orange Blossom Special crosses the Schuylkill River on the Columbia Bridge at Belmont, Pennsylvania. The Belmont Water Works can be seen above the lead unit.

The southbound Orange Blossom Special prepares to crosses the Schuylkill River at Belmont, Pennsylvania. If I recall correctly, the plot of dirt in the foreground was a cooperative garden f... (more)

The southbound Orange Blossom Special crosses the Schuylkill River on the former Reading bridge at Belmont, Pennsylvania. The OBSS almost always had CSX units in the consist, but today’s tr... (more)

Early morning finds the southbound Orange Blossom Special, with predominately Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac power, rolling through Fairless Junction, Pennsylvania, on SEPTA’s West Tr... (more)

In a Potomac Yard scene repeated countless times over the years, a Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac SW1500/slug set grabs a classic Conrail N5C caboose off of an inbound train. It is entirely po... (more)

In the company of an MP15 over a quarter-century its junior, a Union Railroad TR5 set idles in front of the railroad’s roundhouse at Hall, Pennsylvania. Anyone who read model railroading magazines... (more)

Two of the more interesting members of Union Railroad’s fleet of EMD switchers stand with stacks capped outside of the shops at Hall, Pennsylvania. The Union purchased two TR5 “cow and calf” sets ... (more)

The Everett Railroad local is working in Claysburg, Pennsylvania on a crisp March morning. It is seen dropping a CN box car at a local industry.

Susquehanna stack train NTV-9 crosses the Chenango River while making its exit from Binghamton, New York. Three SD45’s in progressive stages of the transformation from BN to NYS&W provide the powe... (more)