Amtrak’s Phase VI 50th Anniversary unit has been a regular on the Pennsylvanian for over a month. Here it leads Train 42 through Christiana, Pennsylvania on December 10, 2021. The depot o... (more)

An Amtrak AEM7 leads a Washington-bound train through the station area of Bowie, Maryland. The tower, which was closed by this time, would later be moved back from the tracks and become the center... (more)

The Other Chocolate Town

The Wilbur Chocolate Company, less well-known nationally than its competitor about 25 miles away in Hershey, produced chocolate in the large building seen ... (more)

Leola Living

Norfolk Southern train H29, which serves the former PRR New Holland secondary, gets its train together for a late afternoon return to its home base of Dillinger Yard i... (more)

Pennsylvania short line Middletown and Hummelstown traverses four blocks of street running during its brief jaunt from the M&H engine house area and the NS interchange along Amtrak’s Keystone Li... (more)

In Enemy Territory

The Baltimore and Ohio had competing trackage with the Western Maryland through most of the WM service territory. Needless to say, there was a strong corporate r... (more)

A Washington, D.C. – Martinsburg, WV “Farewell to the WM F’s” excursion rolls west on the Baltimore and Ohio main line at Weverton, Maryland. This trip was part of the Capitol Ltd. '79... (more)

A VIA LRC and F9B lead a Montreal-bound train out of Brockville, Ontario. F9B 6533 was destroyed in a head-on collision in Hinton, Alberta a little over a year later.

A classic MLW FPA4 shows its less attractive younger sibling how to make an impression getting out of Brockville, Ontario. The LRC/F9B arrived from Toronto, and set the Ottawa cars on the track be... (more)

Exactly thirty-seven years ago, The Ottawa section of a VIA train from Toronto prepares to leave Brockville, Ontario after the Montreal section has departed. Change is in progress at Brockville, w... (more)

Coming and Going at Caliente

A Southern Pacific intermodal train is stretched around the horseshoe curve at Caliente, California. A single SD40T-2 is pushing the rear of the train,... (more)

A brace of Southern Pacific EMD’s pass through Tunnel 2 on the Tehachapi grade. The slide labelling indicates that these are helpers, so they are going away from the lens.

A 66-car Southern Pacific intermodal train approaches Tunnel 2 on the Tehachapi grade. Three SD45’s and a pair of SD40T-2’s muscle the tonnage over the mountains.

Three Southern Pacific tunnel motors lead an eastbound 62-car intermodal train into Caliente, California. Just ahead they will begin the laborious climb to Tehachapi.

With a CSX crew on board, power from the southbound Orange Blossom Special leaves the East Side Yard office in Philadelphia, and moves toward Grays Ferry. Once an air test is completed, th... (more)