Taken in the East Altoona pit during the steam-diesel transition era with a PRR Police escort. The Alco diesels were classified RSD-7 on the Pennsy.

This is PRR's daily local, S71, which ran from Northumberland to Selinsgrove Jct., then out the Selinsgrove Secondary to the PP&L power plant in Shamokin Dam, PA. (coal loads). It then continued ... (more)

N&W Train 5, operating between Bluefield, W. Va. and Norton, Va., crosses trestle #1398 three miles from Coeburn, Va. in fall colors on Oct. 28, 1956. Class E2a 578 is one of two Pacific 4-6-2's... (more)

I secured this print from a fellow in Harlan, KY some 45 years ago. It was torn in a couple of places, but with some work, I've managed to clean it up with Photoshop. This is along the CNO&TP, pro... (more)

Q steam parked at Galesburg

A train of empty L&N hoppers rolls downgrade into Appalachia across Powell River (distance bridge), and the L&N's Cumberland Valley Division main line. Local kids referred to the swimming hole ben... (more)

Late in the steam era on Southern Railway, Ls-2 simple 2-8-8-2 4050 works the Bristol local upgrade just west of the crossing at Sunbright, VA. The grade is nearly two percent at this point. Both ... (more)

A Pennsy yard switcher 2-10-0 4552 class I1sa waits for a PRR Baldwin shark nose RF-15 to clear a diamond in Columbus, Ohio yard.

Early on a cold winter morning two engines are serviced before hauling another long train over 10,000 foot Cumbres pass to Chama. Two more engines, a flanger, and a spreader will run ahead from A... (more)

Rockton & Rion 2-8-2 No. 19 has just brought cars to interchange with Southern as its Local with RS-3 2052 arrives at Rockton, South Carolina on April 12, 1963. Southern's local has 25 loads of S... (more)

N&W Class A 2-6-6-4 No. 1211 is receiving coal from the coaling tower at Columbus, Ohio on Nov. 2, 1957.

For a long time it was normal practice for narrow gauge trains to handle standard gauge cars between Alamosa and Antonito and intermediate points on the three-rail. By the early 60's this practice... (more)

"Eat Taters & Wear No Clothes" ET&WNC's two Consolidation 2-8-0's regularly operated tender-first (hence, the cut-down sides of the coal bunker) on their "eastbound" runs from Johnson City to Eliz... (more)

Elk River Coal & Lumber shay #19 has five loads of logs en route from the lumber camp to Avoco, W. Va. on Nov. 24, 1961. They didn't build bridges, they just forded the creeks. A watchman ri... (more)

Southern Ts-1 class Mountain 1490 is serviced at Asheville in 1939. The USRA-design Light 4-8-2s worked passenger trains in both directions, via the Knoxville Division to and from Knoxville, and a... (more)