Recently-rebuilt Metroliners head into the sunset, after slowing to switch onto No. 2 Track. Lead car No. 867 was one of twenty (Nos. 850-869) 60-seat snack-bar coaches built by Budd/GE as PRR Cl... (more)

A converted Metroliner cab car slows to a station stop on the superelevated curve at Middletown. The 9649 was delivered by Budd/Westinghouse in 1968 as PRR No. 807, Class MP85E4, with 76 coach se... (more)

The 944 has a sister unit dead-in-tow as it slows its Northeast Regional, preparing to cross the 1906-built Susquehanna River Bridge.

The CNJ 113 in her natural element, trundling through Cressona Yard.

A well-worn E-Unit makes its station stop at the "B&O's church." No. 66 was built for the CB&Q as E8A No. 9972 in August of 1953 and was later rebuilt by Morrison-Knudson in the 1970s. ... (more)

Steamtown's new visitor center opening day, with the 261 being prepared to pull the 1995 NRHS convention special out of town, as No. 3254 simmers on an adjacent track. It was about 90 degrees F.,... (more)

An ex-Penn Central Geep leads a 7-engine lashup on an eastbound freight passing by the snowy 16th Street yard. A lot has changed here in 20+ years; the old Reading signal is gone, the yard is emp... (more)

PRR 1223 in steam in the weeds behind the museum, switching onto the track to the turntable. The occasion is the 85th Anniversary of the Broadway Limited, and the 1223 is to be posed at Leaman Pl... (more)

The 1937-vintage PRR cat poles dwarf an eastbound Keystone Service train crossing the Conewago Creek at the junction with the old Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad. The C&L Branch was severely damaged ... (more)

Two U-boats are kicking up the leaves along the old Reading main line somewhere south of Schuylkill Haven, on their way to Tremont. No. 2398 was built for Conrail in May, 1977.

Two Conrail GP10s lead a load of coil cars bound for Alcoa Aluminum, passing the old mill at Midway, as seen from the Rocherty Road overpass. The train is crossing over from the old Cornwall Rail... (more)

A Sunday-after-Thanksgiving PX heads south at exactly 12:00 noon with a standard 9-car Amfleet consist, about to pass the site of the old East Bel Air Avenue grade crossing.

The first GG-1 and the last E-44 are occupying the same turntable track in the mid-90s. "Old Rivets" still looked half-decent here, 13 years after her initial restoration by the Strasbu... (more)

Steamtown's 4-6-2/2-8-2 doubleheader graces the great Nicholson Bridge, performing a photo runby. I recall detraining and piling into a school bus, which deposited us in a farmer's field on the e... (more)

Pan view of the C&O 614 performing one of several full track speed runbys through the site of the old Erie RR yard. The 614's train of NJT Comet coaches and several private cars originated in Hob... (more)