A Roger Puta Photograph

Engine change at South Amboy; 4872 is pulling away from the train after pulling it from Penn Station in New York City. A pair of EMD E units will power PC 1159 from here south.

Passengers disembarking from the "Midday Congressional" from New York

30th Street Encounter – 3

A Harrisburg train has arrived at 30t Street Station in Philadelphia, and the hostlers are taking the GG1 to the Race Street engine terminal. I’m not ... (more)

30th Street Encounter – 1

I frequently visited my railfan cousins in central Maryland during my college years in the late 1970’s. Usually I would borrow my parents’ second ca... (more)

Penn Central GG1’s 4850 and 4844, still carrying their PRR single-stripe scheme, wait for their next assignment at Pavonia Yard in Camden, New Jersey. Pavonia was the major yard of the Pennsylv... (more)

The Washington section of Amtrak's "Broadway Limited", almost to its destination

The last operating GG-1s to visit Harrisburg, if I'm not mistaken. NJT 4877 and 4876 have just pulled the Lancaster Chapter NRHS "Farewell to the GG-1" special from Harrisburg-Philadelp... (more)

Doubleheaded GG-1s are wheeling what looks to be the southbound Silver Meteor or Champion, due in Baltimore just after 6:00 and 7:00 p.m., respectively. (See comments section for further discussi... (more)

A recently patched former Penn Central GG1 with new New Jersey DOT lettering backs onto a New York City bound train from Bay Head.

The "East Coast Champion" passing Nassau Tower on its way south

A well-dressed courtly older gentleman waves from the station platform as a GG-1 hustles a 7-car train of heritage cars northbound.

Train number 19, Amtrak's Southern Crescent, is running in 2 sections today, as this is the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and the first section here consists of mostly Southern Railway equipment tha... (more)

Doubleheaded GG-1s stop traffic in Aberdeen, as they head north at 80 mph with a Florida train. (Paused at the crossing are an old Checker cab, a Ford, and a Chevy Corvette, if I'm not mistaken..... (more)

Here's the northbound Southern Crescent connection making time thru North Elizabeth behind a reliable GG1 on a snowy Sunday in 1977. A whiff of steam on top of the G indicates that the steam gener... (more)