A 3-car Washington Section of the National Limited passes through Lancaster's station without stopping. The train was split in Harrisburg, and Lancaster was served by the New York Section, Train ... (more)

The National Limited pauses briefly at Lancaster, on its way to Harrisburg for an engine change to diesels for the trip to Kansas City. The old PRR station sign has been painted over with Penn Ce... (more)

A GP9 still in its Penn Central paint scheme heads east through Lancaster's station on the center main line tracks. Today, the two center tracks are gone, but the two platform tracks have been up... (more)

One of seven GG1s painted in Amtrak's "Platinum Mist" scheme, the 909 pauses briefly at Lancaster's 1929-built high-level platform with the westbound Broadway Limited. (The other six G... (more)

A Harrisburg-bound Keystone Corridor train is just a couple of minutes from its Lancaster stop as it soars above Conestoga Creek at twilight. A bit of fill flash was used to photograph the train.

A never-to-be-repeated stockyard run, as seen from the north side of the westbound high-level platform at Lancaster; Kodak TRI-X Pan film. The Lancaster stockyards were second only to Chicago's i... (more)

"Farewell to the GG-1" photo runby at the west end of Amtrak's Lancaster station. The trip was sponsored by the Lancaster Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, with the cooperat... (more)

The National Limited, on its way from New York to Harrisburg and Kansas City, pauses at the 1929-built PRR high-level platform. The center two tracks here were for through trains and freights, an... (more)

Westbound AMTK 613 rolls into the Lancaster just as Eastbound AMTK 628 prepares to leave.

Strasburg 2-6-0 ex-Canadian National, passes farm country on the Strasburg.

A GG-1 engineer awaits the highball to go west to Harrisburg. The 4895 was built in April, 1940 by PRR/Westinghouse.

With Hurricane Eloise having short-circuited electric operations, Amtrak resorted to using diesels on its long-distance trains through Harrisburg on the weekend of September 27-28. This is the &q... (more)

The 2nd busiest station in Pennsylvania and 20th busiest in the country. The Lancaster Amtrak station recently underwent a $14 million renovation. Plans included a new HVAC system, improved ticket... (more)

A little squirt to start off the day.

H19 has made its double and is preparing to depart the new H.Craig Lewis Yard in Lancaster, PA. Once called Dillerville Yard, this section of the yard was built new in order to get the railroad ou... (more)