Visits to Lamberts Point, Virginia in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s usually were rewarded with veteran Alco locomotives of several types working around Norfolk & Western’s coal piers. First gen... (more)

For the most part, Conrail’s GP15-1’s were relegated to local and yard service, and they rarely appeared on road freights. Here a pair of them bracket a GP38-2 on train ALCA (Allentown – Camden) a... (more)

A Conrail crew prepares to maneuver a four-month-old GP15-1 out to the yard at Elizabethport, New Jersey. The adjacent building is the former Jersey Central Elizabethport Shops.

My final photo of the Rio Grande Zephyr tested the limits of Kodachrome 25 in the last light of day. As I turned t... (more)

The sun is setting both literally and figuratively on the Rio Grande Zephyr in this view on the Dotsero Cutoff at Dell, Colorado. When it gets to Denver, the RGZ will cease to exist,... (more)

On the day after the arrival of the final Rio Grande Zephyr, six of its cars were conveyed to Amtrak. Here waiting for a deadhead ride east are coaches Silver Aspen and Silver Pin... (more)

Budd streamlined cars have been a regular sight in the shadow of Denver Union Station for 34 years, but this is the last day that they will be here. Today, they are owned by Amtrak, and tonight, a... (more)

Legally Parked

Rio Grande diner Silver Banquet makes its final visit to Grande Junction, Colorado. Its last steak and eggs breakfast has been served, and after it spends ano... (more)

A particularly filthy Delaware & Hudson U33C idles on the service track at Lehigh Valley’s engine terminal in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The big GE was part of a U33C/C628/U30C/C628 lash up.

The Other Strasburg

Many photographers gravitate exclusively to steam, being drawn by the living machines that breathe smoke and steam. Others gravitate toward “regular service” co... (more)

The first light of morning greets the D&H “puller job” at Jefferson Junction, Pennsylvania. There have been no trains in some time, as snow from an overnight storm is still on the rails.

Four Maine Central GE’s in four paint schemes and Delaware & Hudson’s bicentennial RS3m are assigned to the D&H “puller job” at Brandt, Pennsylvania. After the rear of their clears the switch at J... (more)

Delaware & Hudson’s “puller job” is seen at Jefferson Junction, Pennsylvania, waiting for the arrival of another Belden Hill detour train.

Delaware & Hudson’s “puller job” idles at Jefferson Junction od a cold December morning. GE and Alco exhaust hangs heavy over what once was the junction between the D&H Penn Division and the Erie ... (more)

A drab locomotive did nothing to brighten the scene on a cloudy winter morning at Jefferson, Junction, Pennsylvania, or JN Cabin. The train is on the Delaware & Hudson Penn Division, and the “Jeff... (more)