How many times did the 4800 roll by old LEMO Tower? There's some hope that groundbreaking on a new roundhouse at the RR Museum of PA will take place next spring, and there's also a chance that th... (more)

Amtrak's Autumn Express passes through the shadow of the old Reading station in Lebanon, where the last regularly scheduled passenger train stopped on June 30, 1963.

Amtrak's Autumn Express prepares to depart Lancaster with a tripleheader of sorts- the Phase III Heritage Unit, the diesel Veterans Unit No. 42, and the electric Veterans Unit No. 642, leading Fir... (more)

Amtrak's 2016 Autumn Express with an unusual combo of two P42s (No. 42 trailing) and an ACS-64 (No. 642) dead-in-tow. The train will turn on the Rockville wye, and when back under the wires in La... (more)

A bit of Pennsylvania Railroad history brings up the rear of Amtrak's Pennsylvanian- the Morristown & Erie RR's parlor-observation car No. 2006. Originally built as PRR No. 7129 "Alexander H... (more)

Everett's Mogul-type No. 11 charges out of the woods with the 10:00 a.m. Santa Claus Special. No. 11 was built on speculation by Alco-Cooke in Paterson, New Jersey in 1920 and sat on the shop flo... (more)

Everett's Mogul-type No. 11 is slowing its 3-car 12:00 noon Santa Claus Special to a stop. No. 11 was built by Alco-Cooke in 1920 on speculation and sat on the shop floor until 1923, when it was ... (more)

The one-of-a-kind 6,000 hp experimental freight electric rests between assignments in the forlorn yard tracks east of Harrisburg's station. Weighing in at 182 1/2 tons and nearly 69 feet long, th... (more)

Doubleheaded GG-1s round the bend at the south end of the Boro, with the lead unit still displaying a PRR solid stripe. Note the newly-installed welded rail along the bucolic Atglen & Susquehanna... (more)

The crew has come out from Lancaster and has boarded the power, getting it ready for a straight-shot into Lewis Yard at Dillerville. The branch here was rebuilt with welded rail in the late 1980s... (more)

Exhibiting severe corrosion issues in its skin, the 4876 is crossing John Street, heading back to the yard to await its next trip to Penn Station, New York. Note the graffiti scrawled in the dust... (more)

Street-running on what's now a rail-trail on CSX's old Western Maryland Railway right-of-way through downtown Chambersburg. The occasion was MARC's "Patriot Special," which offered seve... (more)

Although we'll never again see fallen-flag boxcars rumbling across the great PRR bridge at Safe Harbor, we soon might be able to walk across it. The conversion of the long-abandoned bridge to hik... (more)

An eastbound coal drag headed up by a smoky GE works up the grade eastbound out of Lebanon. No. 6596 was built in June, 1984 and was renumbered to 8108 by Norfolk Southern before being retired in... (more)

Elephant-style F-units pass under the classic old Western Maryland Railway signal bridge in Chambersburg. Trains traversed this route from 1881 to November 2, 2000. The tracks are gone today, but ... (more)