It's Black Friday, 1975 version, as it is the day after Thanksgiving when I watched Erie Lackawanna employees rerail 3 cars in Hoboken using 2 derricks. There was no Hulcher or RJ Corman at this ... (more)

The last U34CH built by GE is ready to depart on Track 5, as sister-unit No. 4162 idles alongside. The 4183 was purchased in 1978 by the New York MTA (later Metro-North Railroad) as part of their... (more)

NS 1702 and Erie Lackawanna Heritage NS 1700 cross the Raritan River after sundown with a train destined for Browns Yard.

Conrail's OI-16 has the Erie Lackawanna heritage 1700 as the trailing locomotive, with sister unit 1702 leading. The train is pushing back to the Garden State Secondary, before heading south to Br... (more)

NS Erie-Lackawanna Heritage locomotive #1700 suffered a traction motor failure which was addressed on the Atlas Chemical siding in Mertztown, Pa. The locomotive awaits movement to be repaired. The... (more)

U34CH No. 4176 has just finished powering the "Farewell To the U34CH" excursion sponsored by the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey. It shares the yard with GG1 No. 4877.

On Borrowed Time

Leading one of only two Comet I consists remaining on the NJ Transit roster, train 1212 banks into the curve beneath NJ Route 17 as it slows for a station stop... (more)

"Lackawanna 808" isn't really back on home rails at the former DL&W Hoboken Terminal -- the E8 is actually an ex-Pennsylvania Railroad unit -- but it sure does look good posed there in t... (more)

U34CH No. 4172 pauses at the Ridgewood station with the "Farewell to the U34CH" fan trip sponsored by the United Railroad Historical Society. The locomotive had been freshly painted, but... (more)

A westbound NJT Boonton Line train crosses the Hackensack River. This portion of the Boonton Line is now abandoned.

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

Westbound Erie Railroad train 5 The Lake Cities with in the lead Alco PA-1 856, with EMD E8(A) 823 in two-tone green Erie Railroad passenger colors,crossing the Nickel Plate Road tracks at Cresto... (more)

Steamtown ran a fall foliage excursion to East Stroudsburg with DL 2461 for power. The 2461 is about to run around its train, and head back to East Stroudsburg for its passengers, and return to Sc... (more)

A Roger Puta photograph.

A Roger Puta photograph.