The High Iron Co. ran a couple double-headed excursions from Jersey City to Wilkes Barre via portions of the now-abandoned CNJ Pennsylvania Division - otherwise known as CRR of PA. Strasburg Railr... (more)

A quartet of Alco and EMD power - RS3s and GP7s - lead a westbound down Falls grade through Bellevue Jct. in the East Falls section of Philly. This was either an empty hopper or an ore extra. GP7 ... (more)

Helpers on EL 3623 East move across Starucca viaduct on an October morning. Behind the ex-DL&W caboose, lead helper 7094 is a former Erie unit, while the 8454, second out, is former DL&W - both of... (more)

No.23 - The Manhattan Limited - led by a pair of E8 units comes racing out of the reverse curves at Thompsontown, PA on a summer evening. Meanwhile, symbol CNY-4 rushes east on No.1 track with one... (more)

The helper set on symbol ALPI shoves against 137 cars moving up the mountain between Horseshoe Curve and MG.

CR 6067, Edge Moor to Conway symbol EDPI, passes beneath the westward signal bridge at MG interlocking on an October afternoon.

BNSF 743 and 779 in their native colors come drifting into Galesburg, IL on one of those crisp October mornings. You knew this was the "Q" from the distinctive signal system, yet changes... (more)

A Dash 9 and SD70M lead a string of auto racks through the woods at MG on an October afternoon.

The roundhouse at Cheyenne hosts coal train power of the day - C30-7s and a U30C on the side. Most coal traffic came out of the Hanna, WY basin at the time as there were several mines in the vicin... (more)

High Plains Drifter: The windswept plains of Wyoming can be a cold environment and the comparatively lonely rails of the Colorado & Southern Rwy., at this time still a separate entity of BN, hoste... (more)

Following its rescue from display adjacent to the passenger depot in Cheyenne, UP 3985 was restored for service. In March of 1981 it made its first test run on the mainline - handling a short cons... (more)

The Pinecliffe store was suitably located for crews of eastbounds waiting for a meet, or for passersby on beautiful Colorado Route 72. SD40-2 5362 leads a team of five big tunnel motors in gloriou... (more)

A somewhat unusual power combination for a coal train of GP40s and a GP30 come around the corner at Pinecliff, CO with the Continental Divide in the background and South Boulder creek providing a ... (more)

About as spartan and bland as a locomotive could get, PRR 6208 leads hotshot CNY-4 on No.1 track through the super-elevated curve along the banks of the Susquehanna River in Duncannon, PA. There w... (more)

My father and I were on our way to upstate New York to catch NKP Berkshire No. 759 leading a High Iron excursion. We spent the night, as we so often did, beside the tracks - here along the D&H roa... (more)