A Penn Central helper set shoves a mineral train westbound as a nearly-new Silverliner IV gets ready to head east to Philadelphia. The ex-PRR electrification from Paoli east is 100 years old this... (more)

The 4410 is eastbound, passing the L351-L352 signals by the parking lot of the Washington Boro United Methodist Church. The old PRR position lights have been replaced by modern hooded color-light... (more)

The Poughkeepsie Bridge, July 1973. 212 feet above water, and 6768 feet long. Now, it is "...the longest footbridge in the world." A Penn Central-Erie Lackawanna run-through train rolls eastwa... (more)

A westbound PC freight was making it's way across Ohio near Selkirk

Two PC SD40s slug upgrade at MG Tower with a Trailvan Train on a steamy July 18, 1975.

Westbound Penn Central freight train at Bay Junction in West Detroit, Michigan, on October 14, 1973. The large building at the left is General Motors' Cadillac plant. Photograph by more)

GG-1's on freight, coming and going! The icing on the cake was the trailing motor on the right- the unique "Old Rivets" #4800.

What to do while waiting for a Nickel Plate steam excursion over Horseshoe Curve? Why, shoot a Pennsy U-boat wit a Penn Central freight. Believed to be Cresson, corrections welcome. This is fro... (more)

A passenger train meets a manifest up on the mountain. A guess has this passenger train rolling downgrade into Altoona on the east slope while a manifest tackles the mountain. Thanks Luke Harshba... (more)

The CTC panel in Smithboro Tower controlled the majority of the Penn Central (ex-PRR) line across southern Illinois from Terre Haute to East St. Louis. At Smithboro, the PC line was crossed by the... (more)

A westbound PC ore drag was struggling upgrade east of Horseshoe Curve on July 18, 1975 as the cab on an eastbound trailer train passes in the distance. To say he was struggling is an understatem... (more)

A snowstorm had just begun as a brace of six 4-axle EMDs eased a heavy unit grain train down the East Slope at Benny Interlocking in Bennington, PA on Jan. 12, 1975.

Westbound, Ex-New Haven C-425 and U25B, renumbered Penn Central 2458 and 2681, move from the Shoreline to the Naugatuck route via the east leg of the wye at Devon Tower. Train is enroute to Maybro... (more)

Months before PC was able to jettison passenger service under the Amtrak umbrella, one of 75 ex-PRR E8's leads this ramshackle remnant of the once great fleet past the eyes of the Operator at MG.

The midday passenger train lull presents opportunity for the DS to run some freight on the corridor. 4450 leads the march still in her Pennsy dress. (Ed. Note: this is the only view of #4450 in ... (more)