Three C30-7A’s and a GP38-2, typical power for Conrail train CGAL (Corning, NY - Allentown, PA) lead the train across the Susquehanna River at Towanda, Pennsylvania. This view is still possible to... (more)

Conrail train CGAL (Corning, NY - Allentown, PA) passes the former Lehigh Valley station in the LV shop town of Sayre, Pennsylvania. The yard and engine servicing facilities are gone, but the mass... (more)

Late afternoon in Elmira, New York finds Conrail train CGAL (Corning, NY - Allentown, PA) approaching the Chemung River on elevated trackage on the Southern Tier line. The Elmira Transportation Ce... (more)

After completing some work in Elmira, New York, Conrail train ALCG (Allentown, PA- Corning, NY) departs town on its way to Gang Mills..

Heritage

That title may apply to the paint job on the Amtrak P42DC and baggage car, but that’s only a part of the heritage in this image. The Amish have long eschewed technology, u... (more)

Conrail train ALCG (Allentown, PA- Corning, NY) is on the last leg of its journey as it rolls west on the former Erie main line through Elmira, New York. I have not been able to positively identif... (more)

From his cupola seat in a wide-vision caboose, the conductor of a Chesapeake & Ohio hopper train gives a friendly wave to a few photographers. He is passing westward through Crozet, Virginia.

A westbound Chesapeake & Ohio hopper train powers through the sweeping curve at Crozet, Virginia.

Five Chessie-painted Chesapeake & Ohio units lead a westbound train of empty hoppers at the east end of the passing siding at Ivy, Virginia.

With a train of empty hoppers in tow, two Chesapeake & Ohio GP40-2’as and three U30C’s roll westward between Charlottesville and Ivy, Virginia.

Westbound empties on their way to the mines pass the 1923 Chesapeake & Ohio depot in Crozet , Virginia.

A conveniently-placed foot bridge provides a vantage point for a westbound Chesapeake & Ohio train passing the east end of the passing siding at Ivy, Virginia.

Norfolk Southern train H29, the New Holland Secondary local, passes the CPL that is indicating that the Amtrak Keystone Line dispatcher has given it the railroad for its run to the NS yard in Lanc... (more)

A ”pure” (no B&O, no WM) Chesapeake & Ohio power set leads a westbound C&O train consisting mostly of stone loads near Ivy, Virginia. The SD40, U30B, and B30-7 in Chessie paint are trailed by an S... (more)

Forty-Five Years Ago On this day in 1976, the Erie-Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central, Lehigh & Hudson River, Reading, Penn-Reading Seashore Lines, Buffalo Creek, Niagara Junction, ... (more)