New Year's Eve at Rockville with an eastbound Conrail freight, pre-drone days. You can see the original 1849 bridge alignment above the 2nd batch of tank cars.

In the last year of GG1-powered freight operations, the 4886 rolls south along the driftwood-littered Port Road. No. 4886 was built for the PRR in March of 1939 by Altoona-GE, 40 years prior to t... (more)

EMD/ASEA's one-of-a-kind 10,000 hp GM10B heads off into the sunset, with a westbound on the Enola Branch. The train is about to pass under the 1930-built Art Deco Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge, wh... (more)

PRR K4s No. 1361 has brought a short train of three cars down from Altoona, and is running around its train for the return trip. By this time, the position light signals were gone, but the high i... (more)

PRR K4s No. 1361 has a respectable 8 cars in tow, crossing over at ROSE with a Bellefonte-Altoona excursion.

Train time at Paoli, 1975, as the Kansas City-bound "National Limited" slows to a halt. This train, which also served Columbus, Indianapolis, and St. Louis, was discontinued in 1979.

A southbound Metroliner is rocketing over the 4-lane grade crossing in Aberdeen; speed here was usually between 105-110 mph. No. 813 is still in service, as cab-control car 9646.

Bygone days on the NEC- wood ties, GG1-powered passenger trains of heritage cars, and rubberized grade crossings.

A long southbound train of heritage equipment behind a "bloody-nose" GG-1 rumbles into 30th Street on the old PRR jointed rail. The locomotive is one of the seven GG-1s painted in Amtra... (more)

The Broadway Limited is racing west under the old Marietta Pike bridge, passing the crumbling station platforms at Mount Joy. The bridge has since been replaced, and Amtrak and the Commonwealth o... (more)

Regular SEPTA R6 commuters are awed by the 425 bringing in a load of shoppers from South Hamburg on a Friday-after-Thanksgiving excursion. Note the Blue Mountain & Reading's RDC cars being used a... (more)

A single Penn Central E44 is on the point of a unit train of grain empties, waiting to proceed off No. 3 Track onto Conrail's Enola Branch. It's a brassy hot August day, and the fireman has his c... (more)

The incredible 10,000 hp GM10B is awaiting a crew to take it west in the spring of 1978. This 197-ton, 73'-4" long giant rode on B-B-B trucks with 50" drivers. Never duplicated, it was... (more)

E-44 No. 4405, in Conrail's initial "minimalist" paint scheme with no markings except cab numerals, leads the 4445, which has somehow survived with its yellow Pennsy cab numerals intact ... (more)

A crewman from the two light E44s stopped in the interlocking is crossing the 4-track mainline to pick up orders from the operator at PARK. Note the westbound E44-powered freight in the distance,... (more)