A "Conrail Quality" GP10 rests at the 16th Street Yard, Christmas Eve, 1992. This locomotive was originally built as a GP9 for the New York Central in October, 1955, and was upgraded by... (more)

What Southern Superpower might have looked like; except for the TP herald on the feedwater heater. Just happened upon this scene after leaving Monticello with my late grandparents- we had no idea... (more)

A never-to-be-repeated elephant-style F-unit trio on the old Western Maryland Railway through Chambersburg. Trains plied this route from 1881 to November 2, 2000. The tracks are gone today, but ... (more)

Conrail Class N-21 caboose No. 21243 brings up the rear of a westbound manifest east of Newport, in the beautiful Juniata River Valley. Conrail ordered 113 N-21s from the Fruit Growers Express Co... (more)

A big SD45-2 with a 5,000 gallon fuel tank pushes a westbound manifest around Benny Curve in the early spring of 1987. No. 6655 was built by EMD as the Erie-Lackawanna No. 3670 in November, 1972,... (more)

The crew will need a snow shovel to exit the cab after plowing Lebanon's multiple crossings in the aftermath of the Washington's Birthday weekend blizzard.

Port Tower's days are numbered, as the eastbound Broadway Limited passes by. No. 400 was built by EMD for Amtrak in August, 1985, and eventually ended up on the Agence métropolitaine de transpor... (more)

A late Claytor-Era Broadway Limited is eastbound on the monumental 1902-built Rockville Bridge. Behind the F40 is a GP40TC, seven express cars, a baggage car, seven Heritage cars, and two Amfleet... (more)

A MARC special from Hagerstown to Gettysburg and New Oxford is passing through the famous railroad cut, where, on the morning of July 1, 1863, the Confederate brigade of Brig. Gen. Joseph R. Davis... (more)

The inbound 1989 NRHS convention special with the N&W 611 passes a ballast train south of Charlottesville. No. 3988 was built by GE for the Southern Railway in January, 1979.

A standard-cab GE smokes it up while hauling an eastbound manifest past Lebanon Plumbing Supply and the Chashire Manor Apartments. Only the two main tracks remain today, with the closing of Bethl... (more)

Side view of a mighty-mite 51-foot long AEM-7 wearing Amtrak's "minimalist" paint scheme, pausing at Middletown. By comparison, its predecessors, the E-60 and GG-1, were 71 feet and 79 f... (more)

A new look for the 425, with a gold and black number plate replacing the gold and red plate. Also new this year is the gondola for hauling bikes up to Old Penn Haven, where cyclists disembark for... (more)

Now a museum piece at Strasburg, the 915 emerges from the woods west of Elizabethtown, clattering along the old PRR 152-lb jointed rail with the "Pennsylvanian."

A 1986-built standard-cab SD60 leads a colorful 15T through the Lebanon Valley, on its way to Atlanta, GA. The area to the left of the mainline was once occupied by at least three side tracks whi... (more)