The final eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr waits for departure time at Grand Junction Colorado. All six domes are part of the consist for this momentous occasion.

The View from Starrucca

A Northbound Delaware & Hudson train, led by three GP38-2’s, one D&H and two Boston & Maine, snake through the curves of the Penn Division at Lanesboro, P... (more)

A Delaware & Hudson “puller job” drags a train south under Conrail’s Starrucca Viaduct at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. After a switchback move at Jefferson Junction, the train will enter the Sou... (more)

With the famed Starrucca Viaduct as a backdrop, a Delaware & Hudson “puller job” stands on the Penn Division main line at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. The snow on the rails indicates that the trai... (more)

The power of a southbound Delaware & Hudson train, detoured by the Belden Hill tunnel expansion project has arrived at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, and has run around its train. A “puller job” has... (more)

During the Delaware & Hudson Belden Hill tunnel enlargement project, a puller job for the detour trains waits on the Penn Division main line at Jefferson Junction, Pennsylvania.

CSX EMD’s sporting the colors of Family Lines, Seaboard System, and Chessie System bring an eastbound manifest through Doswell, Virginia. The corner of the station can be seen to the right, and ... (more)

Who Took the Cat?

There have been many different versions of patch jobs over the years, done with the intent to eradicate the identity of a former owner while providing confirmatio... (more)

A CSX local rolls past the former Chesapeake & Ohio depot at Lee Hall, Virginia. On the extreme right Is a piece of southern Americana that was rapidly disappearing at that time – a mom and-pop ... (more)

One of my favorite EMD models in one of my least-favorite paint schemes passes under a classic C&O cantilever signal at Lee Hall, Virginia.

A clean CSX YN2 SD40-2 of Louisville & Nashville lineage leads a westbound train of empty hoppers on the former Chesapeake & Ohio main line at Newport News, Virginia. The train is on the beginning... (more)

Dusk finds a light engine move of CSX power rolling west on Conrail’s Lebanon Valley Line at Avon, Pennsylvania. I do not know the reason for this move.

Today’s Pennsylvanian drew the Phase VI 50th anniversary unit again. Here train 42 passes Amish farmland at Irishtown, Pennsylvania.

A set of light engines roll past the former Reading station at Port Kennedy, Pennsylvania. The public is out in force to see Reading T1 2102 power a Reading – Philadelphia excursion, which is du... (more)

Amtrak’s 50th Anniversary Phase VI locomotive, painted in what hat has been announced as their new standard scheme, leads train 42, the eastbound Pennsylvanian approaching Salunga, Pennsy... (more)