Winona train get ready for afternoon departure from Green Bay.

Due to increasing train lengths, Norfolk Southern and Delaware-Lackawanna have been interchanging at the south end of Portland rather than in the small yard at Slateford Jct. Here the PT power has... (more)

The photographers get a wave from the engineer as his train passes the site of the Bevier Street yard office after another successful descent of Belden Hill. His three D&H Alco Centuries, B&M GP40... (more)

The homeward-bound turn passes a derailed hopper on the siding near Murray Dam as it heads out of Little Rock into the setting sun.

I had been hanging around Holbrook that morning when I discovered that the Apache Railway was going to take some empty wagons down the line. Something which I believe doesn't happen all that often... (more)

Rare Mileage Excursion

In the 2015 season Steamtown offered a few rare mileage excursions on multiple DL branches. This would be the first of roughly a dozen rare mileage excur... (more)

A railroad down the Delmarva Peninsula - from Wilmington, Delaware to Cape Charles, Virginia - was completed by Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk in 1884. This lin... (more)

A southbound manifest enters East Binghamton yard with a mixed bag of models and paint schemes on the head end.

A new Long Island Railroad paint scheme (similar to the MILW Bicentennial unit) emerged when the LIRR GP38-2's were delivered in 1976. The blue units with the 2 white stripes were now the norm, an... (more)

Another weekend at Oyster Bay finds LIRR222, the first unit of LIRR's L2 class, along with a couple of FA power packs. The L2 class (222-229) were delivered in 1968 with hi-adhesion (aka Hi-Aid) ... (more)

The Allentown/Bethlehem area became the home of Conrail's former Lehigh & Hudson River's C420's, as well as the ex-Lehigh Valley's RS11's. Here an example of each adds blue smoke to an already glo... (more)

It’s Conrail’s first birthday, and a late-afternoon overview of Allentown yard yields a glimpse of the early progression of Conrail’s brand. On the heavy side yard throat, unrepainted Lehigh... (more)

The Arkansas & Missouri’s Fort Smith Turn enters the yard at its destination. Joining the three C420’s on the head end is a T6 being ferried to Fort Smith for local service.

Three Alco Centuries and three of the SD45's purchased to replace them on mainline trains bring NTV-4 east through Howells, New York.