Four Lackawanna GP7s sit around the Hoboken turn table. One unit, 962, is a freight Geep and has dynamic brakes.

Lackawanna passenger F3s 802-A and 803-A sit at Hoboken.

Erie GP7 1401 is clean and shiny as it sits with a six car westbound train at Ridgewood.

Dynamic brakes whine as four unit F7 711-A,B,C,D slows for a stop at Ridgewood. This train stopped to set out the first two box cars and then continued on the Bergen County line to Croxton Yard. T... (more)

Erie's first PA-1 accelerates from the Ridgewood station with a morning train bound for Hoboken. It looks like GM, Ford and Chrysler are all represented in the parking lot at left.

The sunlight was dramatic and the hills very lush as Y6a 2158 pushes the afternoon freight headed by two other Y6 locomotives.

This train was at the end of my August 1958 visit to Roanoke. It had rained quite hard that afternoon but then the sun broke through dramatically. Two Y6s pull on an eastbound freight and the lead... (more)

Y6a 2167 pushes hard on the wood-sheathed caboose of a coal drag pulled by a single Y6, number 2152.

A bit of hazy sunlight illuminates Y6a 2157 pushing a steel caboose on the freight led by class A 1217.

Class A 1217 pulls upgrade with an eastbound merchandise train, probably no. 84, near the small overpass at Blue Ridge.

Y6 2150 on the local freight from Roanoke steams under the small road bridge near the summit of the Blue Ridge grade.

An eastbound coal drag behind Y6 2129 and class A 1216 pull upgrade near the summit of the Blue Ridge grade. I met several other railfans on this trip and one of them must have been Jerry Carson ... (more)

Y6b 2179 is one of the newer engines and is on pusher duty this morning. The engine pushes a coal drag pulled by Y6 2129 and class A 1216. The level of water in the tender is evident in the August... (more)

The late afternoon light illuminates the details of Y6a 2167 as it awaits another eastbound freight to push up the Blue Ridge grade.

The engineer of class A 1216 looks back as his engine crawls upgrade behind Y6 2-8-8-2 2129 with coal. The safety valves of both engines have lifted as they near Blue Ridge station just around the... (more)