The three SD80MAC pushers (7216, 7209 and 7213) on the rear of this loaded coal train catch the last few rays of sunlight as they grind uphill toward the summit at Gallitzin. By the time the three... (more)

Coming up ACES. NJT ALP44 4428 brings up the rear of the late morning northbound ACES out of Atlantic City, seen here only a few miles into the run as they fly over Absecon Creek.

Coming up ACES. NJT ALP44 4405 brings up the rear of the Saturday afternoon northbound ACES on the first weekend of service. Serving as a cab car on the Atlantic City Line during the trip s... (more)

Coming up ACES. The first revenue run of the new ACES (Atlantic City Express Service), operated by New Jersey Transit and funded by casinos in Atlantic City, crosses the classic PRR stone a... (more)

NS C40-9W 9332 and still blue SD60I 6758 lead westbound manifest 13G through the superelevated curve in Tyrone. The station, built in 2000, is used as a home for the local historical society.

Even in late May, there was a little snow on the shadowy hillsides just south of Spruce and the trees were still bare as Shay 11, lettered for the Mower Lumber Company, crawled through the S-curve... (more)

Got smoke? Sixty-seven years after she was built, Pere Marquette Berkshire 1225 adds to her carbon footprint while performing a runby at King Road a few miles north of Owosso, on a former N... (more)

Everyone's a fan of the Challenger. With sunset rapidly approaching, the crew of this westbound empty coal has been waiting for 4-6-6-4 3985 on the east side of Fremont, and after giving th... (more)

In a small town in northeast Pennsylvania in the late 1940s, the rails through town have come to life as Lehigh & New England 65-tonner 602 and its caboose holds the siding, while an unknown short... (more)

Bye bye blue? The Juniata Shops in Altoona is one of the last places where you can shoot blue engines outnumbering black engines, over a decade after the merger. The orange railcar mover (a... (more)

The hills echo with the sounds of EMD 645 engines as NS SD40-2s 3374 and 3342 shove hard on the rear of an eastbound loaded coal train as it digs in for the climb to the summit. NS 3373 and 3368 s... (more)

Two down, forty to go... About 20 minutes after departing Brunswick, Maine Eastern's morning eastbound, led by two former Amtrak FL9s (488 and 489), vaults over a serene New Meadows River o... (more)

Dress blues, again. With only two SD80MACs remaining in blue, the chances of seeing them together gets rarer and rarer. Therefore, when AB2 and I found the 7205 and 7208 sitting together in... (more)

Two of Norfolk Southern's newest locomotives, NS SD40E 6304 (rebuilt in January 2009 from SD50 6522), and NS SD40E 6301 (rebuilt in January 2009 from SD50S 6504), assisted westbound manifest M9G o... (more)

It's a sad sight when even an empty autorack train (symbol help appreciated) only draws a single C40-9W as power, as this westbound has as it passes the former PRR Lewistown station.