One of the tank cars used to bring in the fuel the Santa-Fe oil-burners needed on a coal-burning railroad is spotted by the roundhouse. Oil burners were a western railroad fuel not akin to PRR op... (more)

Erie-built FM power #9471 sits on the turntable at St. Clair Ave. roundhouse, PRR class FF20. Behind it a Baldwin shark and showing it's tender in the stall is what appears to be #5016, leased Sa... (more)

PRR 9913 sits on the St. Clair Ave. turntable. If you look closely at the left side rails off the table you see the rail extender attached by PRR that the leased Santa Fe steam engines needed in ... (more)

Oil burning leased ATSF 5034 is in the process of being fired up for Sandusky coal service, an overhead view from St. Clair Ave. comes courtesy of friendly PRR employees. They had tipped John and... (more)

To Pennsy they were just another diesel model in the ranks, online in 1955, a year in service grime showing to prove it at the time of this photo. They're at Columbus, blending in with the produc... (more)

One for the modelers: PRR kept this fire equipment handy, just in case. Was there a concealed water cannon behind the walls of the tender frame at the head end? It was stored at the St. Clair Av... (more)

Old-school DT&I power works the weed-strewn PRR yard tracks by St. Clair Ave. This land would later become I-670.

Class FM H10-44 #9080 works through the switches in the PRR A Yard at St. Clair Ave. This would be day one of a week-long adventure trying to capture leased Santa Fe steam working on the Sandusky... (more)

Delaware, Lackawanna an Western heritage Unit 1074 leads Eastbound hotshot 218. For about a month Norfolk Southern 1074 would bounce between Chicago and Charlotte on hotshots 218-217.

After a runaround move, the crew on the Ohio Central Directors Special starts to pull out on the main prior to backing about a 1/2 mile west to board passengers. Today's special would run from Col... (more)

Speeding towards Columbus, an intermodal catches some morning light.

A local works the east end of Watkins yard as an NS police woman monitors the gathering of railfans at Valley Crossing. She, along with many railfans, showed up to see the 765 as it arrived in Col... (more)

NS 117 has a clear signal at CP 145 to proceed west towards Cincinnati. This day 117 had NS's Penn Central heritage unit leading. The signals are those of PRR heritage. If you look closely, the CP... (more)