What's now Amtrak's Metroliner Conference Car No. 9800 is seen here in its operating days rocketing past the half-hour Strasburg steam train power of the mid/late 80s. It was built by Budd as sna... (more)

With a friendly wave from the engineer, an ex-PRR SD35 heads up an intermodal freight, passing by a typical electro-pneumatic interlocking. Note the PC Deepwater green block station on the left, ... (more)

NJT in Maryland, as Amtrak leases otherwise idle equipment for its annual Sunday after Thanksgiving NEC rush.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Heritage Unit backs past J-Tower after spending the weekend at the RR Museum of PA. In its heyday at Lemoyne, PA, as "LEMO" tower, PRR pin-striped E-Units woul... (more)

The PRR 1361 is whistling for a farm crossing, as pacers on US Route 220 chase the 4-car train from Milesburg to Tyrone.

The first excursion of the restored PRR K4s No. 1361 is briefly bathed in sunlight, as it heads back to Tyrone and Altoona. The engine turned on the Bellefonte wye while excursionists enjoyed a b... (more)

Three locomotives originally built for the PRR pose for the camera in 1990. It's interesting to compare the boiler diameter of the 1914-built Atlantic to the 1905-built American Type No. 1223, wh... (more)

A foggy fall morning in the Susquehanna Valley, as a trio of SD50s pull Shawmut Line coal loads into Enola Yard.

Two of Roanoke's finest perform a rare side-by-side mainline runby- the 1218 with empty hoppers and the 611 pulling a passenger trainload of conventioneers.

With my wife standing under the Amtrak herald for a sense of scale, No. 4932 languishes by the original visitor center building. The locomotive was later moved to Cooperstown Junction, NY, and th... (more)

Emanating a veritable Vesuvian smoke plume and wearing its DL&W-inspired "Pocono Mountain Express" paint scheme, the 2317 performs a runby during the 1986 railfan weekend.

A Conrail "Executive E" trundles into Enola, probably for some maintenance work. No. 4021 was built as PRR 5711 in October 1952, and is now owned by Juniata Terminal.

The PRR 1361's crew and a solitary railfan are scrutinizing an issue hidden behind the massive 27" X 28" cylinders. The locomotive had run to Bellefonte earlier in the day, turned on th... (more)

The PRR Heritage Unit looks a bit out of place rolling through the Amish farmland on the Strasburg's light jointed rail. It's heading back to Leaman Place Junction and the Amtrak mainline after ha... (more)

Notable 90 is pounding upgrade by Carpenters, on its way back to Strasburg. The 1924 Baldwin has 8 cars behind its tender.