Alco C-425 EL 2458 leads a westbound merchandise train at Waldwick, NJ, Oct 5, 1974. Who knew just how special this would be looking back 45 years!!!

EL 2505 running long hood forward (and with EL lettering above the maroon stripe), at Ridgewood Jct, NJ, Jan 1974.

EL 2504, a U25B, with a rail grinder train, at HoHoKus, NJ. Note the 6 axle ex steam tendor still being used, April 1975.

EL 1273 along with 2 EL F units still in service, at Burwick, PA. April 26, 1975.

After working the yard at Ayer, a westbound Boston & Maine freight behind a four-unit EMD lashup accelerates through Shirley, MA.

An eastbound Boston & Maine freight rolls through the station at Lowell, MA, behind a GP40-2/D&H GP38-2/U33B lashup. In the background an FP10-powered MBTA commuter train prepares to depart for Bo... (more)

As the crew of the stone train ties down on track 4 at South Fork PA, a mixed freight glides down grade. The PRR signal in this shot would be removed less that 48 hours later, and this was the las... (more)

A duo of SD80macs back their train (which is lead by two more 80s) into the track 4 siding at South Fork PA; while a NS hotshot intermodal whizzes by on track 3.

As the sun drops low on a fall afternoon, a westbound Boston & Maine freight led by GP40-2 315 grinds through Shirley, MA, with a cloud of sand indicating that the engineer is looking for better t... (more)

GP39-2s are the dominate power at the engine terminal.

Norfolk Southern SD80MAC 7207 shoves the the second cut of 50 coal cars through the flood-loader at the Amfire Coal Load-out in Portage, PA. Amfire receives coal from multiple mines in the area wh... (more)

Erie Lackawanna U33C 3304 and an SD45 companion have just arrived at Maybrook, NY, with interchange traffic for the former New Haven RR. Penn Central would soon reroute traffic away from this trad... (more)

Six months after the Penn Central takeover, New Haven U25B 2519 heads up a GE quartet at Maybrook, NY. Within a few years this once-busy interchange point would be quiet as PC diverted traffic awa... (more)

NECR 608 pauses in Franklin on their way south, and will soon drop the trailing GP38, number 3850, on the runaround for a ballast extra to use the next day.

A Portent of Things to Come

Susquehanna power is visiting Delaware & Hudson’s East Binghamton engine terminal in this January 1988 view. In about five months, the D&H will declar... (more)