Returning from Metropolitan Edison’s Portland Generating Station in Portland, Pennsylvania, Conrail train UPS drops down the grade at East Bangor with empty hoppers. This location is on the easter... (more)

Five 38-series GP’s and a GP40 lead Conrail train WJAL-1 up the grade on the Bangor & Portland Division in East Bangor, Pennsylvania. Before symbol UPS was instituted for Portland Generating Stati... (more)

Conrail U25B 2622 leans into the curve as it leaves Bangor, Pennsylvania. The building that we’re about to pass is part of the Flory Milling complex. At one time, there was a trailing point siding... (more)

Three Conrail SD50’s lead a train of coal past the site of the Lehigh Valley’s Calypso yard in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Symbolled UPS, the coal is bound for Metropolitan Edison’s Portland Ge... (more)

One-month-old Conrail C39-8 6009 leads an eastbound train through Geissingers, Pennsylvania. Geissingers is just east of East Penn Junction on the former Lehigh Valley main line.

Arguably the two biggest landmarks in South Philly are the Sports Complex and the Walt Whitman Bridge. For those with ferroequine interests, a new one appeared in 1992 when CP/D&H established an i... (more)

Newly- instituted CP/D&H train 557 takes a few intermodal loads north through South Philadelphia. The first leg of its journey was on former PRR tracks – new territory for the CP as its new interm... (more)

Canadian Pacific RS-23 8043 rests outside the stone roundhouse at Smiths Falls, Ontario.

One of the most unusual designs ever to roll out of the erecting hall of Montreal Locomotive Works was the RS-23. Looking like an end-cab switcher on a raised frame with AAR road trucks under it, ... (more)

The Reading and Chessie System had run-through services to Allentown, Pennsylvania in pre-Conrail days. Here a Chesapeake & Ohio SD40 waits for its return assignment at Bethlehem Engine Terminal.

During a break between downpours, a Chesapeake & Ohio works through the yard at Russell, Kentucky. The C&O only made a few purchases from Alco, and their RSD4/5’s were quickly traded in to EMD on ... (more)

Russell, Kentucky was the last stronghold for Chesapeake & Ohio’s SD 18’s. The brakeman’s attire gives a clue to the weather on this day.

It’s a typically hot, hazy July day in Charlottesville, Virginia. Chesapeake & Ohio GP9 6258 had just shoved Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 610 from the C&O turntable back to the Southern passenger statio... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio GP9 6064 works one of Chessie’s yards in Cleveland, Ohio.

For over thirty years, before the Reading & Northern came to town, George Hart’s Rail Tours, Inc. provided excursions out of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Here passengers prepare to board a train pull... (more)