Famous class A 1218 drifts westbound down the Blue Ridge grade with a merchandise train that will soon be in Roanoke.

N&W Y6b 2179 is running light eastbound early in the morning at Blue Ridge.

Leased ACL E7 A-B units pull upgrade with train 4, POCAHONTAS, at Blue Ridge.

N&W Y6 2142 leaves Blue Ridge with the eastbound local freight after switching the stone crusher there.

Southern E8 6910 leads an E7 under the bridge at Blue Ridge with train 45, TENNESSEAN, on a beautiful fall afternoon.

A two car train of Susquehanna Budd-built stainless steel coaches led by a hastily repainted RS-1 drifts into Hackensack westbound.

An eastbound mid-day passenger train on the DL&W Boonton Line has a nice mix of equipment.

Lackawanna F3 A-B-B-A units lead an eastbound freight past the passenger station. Three color schemes are represented, the trailing A unit is in solid gray which was thankfully not later adapted.

A Lackawanna General Electric 44-ton diesel switches industrial trackage below the Boonton Line on Garret Mountain.

Two CNJ Alco RS-3 units pass through the yards at Roselle Park and past the Aldene station with an eastbound freight. The winter sun is very low on this last day of 1958.

A nicely matched A-B-A set of Jersey Central "Babyface " Baldwin diesels are about to pass under the Lehigh Valley with a westbound freight.

A Lehigh Valley EMD switcher leads a short westbound local freight on the truss bridge over the Jersey Central main line.

NYO&W FT units sit with a heater car at Erie's Croxton Yard. My grandmother lived at the Oneida Community Mansion in the late 1940s and I recall O&W diesel-powered freights running right next to t... (more)

This wood-sheathed caboose was among several and the EMD FTs stored at Erie's Croxton Yard after the demise of the NYO&W.

Erie F3 units 714-D,C,B,A sit alongside FT set 704 at Secaucus. The F3 set was purchased from the defunct NYO&W. Coincidence had it that a friend and I were there that day to photograph the NYO&W ... (more)