The closest you'll get to street-running in Lebanon, with a view west along Lebanon's Scull St., showing the old Railroad House Hotel (now apartments,) row homes, and the twin Route 72 viaducts. ... (more)

Pennsy D16sb No. 1223 returning from Paradise, with the trainman spotting the consist at the old pedestrian walkway directly across from the station. You could access the station area from the pa... (more)

Amtrak GG-1 918 hustling the "National Limited" between Lancaster and Harrisburg on a cold Sunday afternoon in February of 1976. Maximum track speed on the old PRR main back then was 75 mph. No.... (more)

The PRR 1223 (Juniata, 1905,) running around its train at Paradise, about a year before it was retired from active service. The locomotive had been on loan to the Strasburg from the PRR, PC, and ... (more)

A 1956-built ex-B&O RDC on Thomas Viaduct, which connects Elkridge to Relay. Note the 15-foot high obelisk on the Relay side, erected by builder John McCartney; one side is inscribed- "The T... (more)

A view of the Strasburg's old "egg" emblem on the tender of ex-CN 0-6-0 No. 7312, built in 1908 by Baldwin. Note the generous headroom above the firing deck. Restored in 1960, the loco... (more)

Keystone Service in the 1980s, with an eastbound 3-car rebuilt Metroliner set. Budd-GE snack bar-coach (PRR Class MPC85E5) No. 856 (scrapped February 2003) is in the lead.

Pennsy 4-4-0 No. 1223, panned at Paradise. The 1223 is the sole-survivor of 429 PRR Class D16 4-4-0s. It was retired from active service on the Strasburg Rail Road in 1989, and is now on display... (more)

Traffic has come to a halt on Bel Air Avenue for a southbound Amfleet consist led by Penn Central GG-1 No. 4890. Note the HEP car converted from an old coach, the now-gone general store, and vint... (more)

Silverliner Service in the 1970s, with an ex-PRR Class MP85B stopping by Mount Joy's crumbling platform. Amtrak and the Commonwealth of PA recently opened a new station here, with high level plat... (more)

The Clinchfield 676 at dusk, about halfway between Dante and St. Paul, rolling toward Kingsport. It was our last photo of the day, as the train was delayed at Boody after the 676 sideswiped a tra... (more)

Ex-Gulf, Mobile, and Northern No. 425 in 1986, backing down onto a Santa Claus Special on the Blue Mountain & Reading Railroad at South Hamburg. No. 425, built by Baldwin in 1928, has 69" dr... (more)

Four Geeps lead a westbound intermodal around the horseshoe curve at Mance in late 1986. Lead unit No. 4184 is a 1972 product of EMD.

A 1985-built SD50 on the point of a Conrail freight. This locomotive eventually went to the KCS, renumbered as their 7014. After 30 years, I don't remember where I snapped this B&W negative; it'... (more)

A chop-nosed Geep leads a local freight on the old Reading Lines in the Lebanon Valley. No. 7570 was rebuilt from PRR GP9 No. 7063, built by EMD in October of 1956.