Flowers at the Gravesite

Conrail GP9B 3807 awaits the torch in the Altoona dead line. The curvature of the frame is a good indicator of the cause of death.

With a car on each end, the Everett Railroad’s crew departs Claysburg, Pennsylvania

Everett Railroad GE 80-tonner number 4 switches a car in Claysburg, Pennsylvania. In the left background is one of the former DL&W MU cars that would become an excursion coach.

Everett Railroad GE 80-tonner number 4, the only piece of equipment that survived the abandonment of the original Everett line, stands at the operational headquarters of the reborn Everett ay Clay... (more)

Eastbound New York, Susquehanna and Western train NTV-4 crosses the Delaware River from Millrift, Pennsylvania to New York as it approaches Port Jervis. Millrift has been an iconic photo location ... (more)

In an unimaginable move in the 1980’s, Susquehanna landed a stack train contract with Sea-Land Corporation. Although five C430’s were the carrier’s main road power, the addition of a CF7 was a lit... (more)

Delaware & Hudson train RPPY passes through Parryville, Pennsylvania. The bridge in the background id the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, while to the extreme right is Walck’s Restaura... (more)

Delaware and Hudson trains in the late 1980’s promised a wide variety of power in a rainbow of colors. Once in a while, a not-so-colorful lash up like this CSX semi-stealth GP40-2/GP40 pair with a... (more)

D&H Train PYRP comes down the “ramp” into Lehighton, Pennsylvania. The ramp was created in 1967 when competitors Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley entered into a joint trackage agreement and consol... (more)

A New York, Susquehanna & Western B40-8/SD45/B40-8 combo brings Rouses Point-bound RPPY through Packerton Yard. The former Lehigh Valley Packerton car shops stand beyond the power.

Delaware & Hudson train RPPY (Rouses Point - Potomac Yard) passes the site of the once-bustling Lehigh Valley yard in Packerton, Pennsylvania.

Delaware & Hudson train PYRP (Potomac Yard – Rouses Point) parallels the Lehigh River through the Lehigh Narrows between Packerton and Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Under operation by the Susquehanna,... (more)

Delaware & Hudson train RPPY (Rouses Point – Potomac Yard) passes the hump at Conrail’s Allentown Yard on the Allentown Running Track. Guilford has jettisoned the D&H, and the Susquehanna now oper... (more)

Norfolk & Western SD35 1574 stands by the servicing facilities in Portsmouth, Ohio. Most second generation high hoods represented a small minority of the total production of their model, but N&W a... (more)

The Lancaster & Chester local pulls a cut of cars out of the GAF Materials east of Chester, South Carolina. The contrast between the short line EMD switchers and the oversized box cars has always ... (more)