Lancaster & Chester’s local works the former Southern Railway interchange by the depot in Chester, South Carolina.

The incandescent light of a red signal glows on cars from “Thomas Edison’s Railroad” in their waning days, spending the night at the end of the branch at Gladstone, New Jersey.

The weekend before the final runs of the Lackawanna MU cars, an excursion travelling multiple branches was operated. Here it crosses the Passaic River in Millington, New Jersey as these cars have ... (more)

1930-era MU cars built for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western spend the night at the end of the branch at Gladstone, New Jersey.

A Gladstone Branch commuter train crosses the Passaic River on a trestle at Millington, New Jersey.

With a full train of coal from Consolidated Coal’s Bailey Mine trailing, three 40-series EMD’s pass through West Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela Railway. The train is consigned to Wis... (more)

Portland Terminal Alco switchers get attention in the roundhouse at Rigby Yard in Portland, Maine.

Reading & Northern’s Santa Claus Special rolls south through Hamburg, Pennsylvania. In the background is a bridge that once carried the PRR Schuylkill Division.

Three of Maine Central’s Independence Class “baby boats” and a GP7 lead a train into Rigby Yard in Portland, Mane. The ten U18’s were named for revolutionary war patriots and concepts, and were as... (more)

Flying a flag that will fall during the year of this photo, a Detroit & Toledo Shore Line covered hopper stands in Toledo, Ohio.

Nine years after the FRA-mandated deadline for cars built before 1966 to have their roofwalks removed, there were still non-compliant cars in service. Here a Chesapeake & Ohio 40-foot boxcar, stil... (more)

New York, Susquehanna & Western GP18 class unit 1800 stands in front of the sanding tower in Binghamton, New York. The 1962 EMD, which is seen in new territory on the recently-acquired Northern Di... (more)

Visits to Lamberts Point, Virginia in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s usually were rewarded with veteran Alco locomotives of several types working around Norfolk & Western’s coal piers. First gen... (more)

For the most part, Conrail’s GP15-1’s were relegated to local and yard service, and they rarely appeared on road freights. Here a pair of them bracket a GP38-2 on train ALCA (Allentown – Camden) a... (more)

A Conrail crew prepares to maneuver a four-month-old GP15-1 out to the yard at Elizabethport, New Jersey. The adjacent building is the former Jersey Central Elizabethport Shops.