Saturday at Meadows Engine Terminal in May of '53.

Boxcab 4730 poses for John's camera. Boxcabs were built to haul passenger trains but ended up being relegated to freight service.

This is a sister image to this photo. You see the rear of a manifest leaving Altoona and a set of BH50 Baldwin pushe... (more)

Deltic prototype at the Diesel Days weekend at the museum. This was a very rare opportunity to see the loco outside, this has only happened a handful of times since it's preservation nearly half a... (more)

At the Avery Depot, ready to head East, E21 is MU'd with what appers to be 3 GP40's. Today, the depot remains but the right of way is now a road.

Part of the same group of locomotives built for Russia but were embargoed and ended up on the Milwaukee and here on the South Shore. It is my understanding these were not referred to as "Little Jo... (more)

Special train from Washington transfers riders for a day on the Strasburg Railroad.

E9019 leads an empty ore train out of the Orex yard at Saldanha, at this point it had still its pantograph down with diesels behind it doing all the work.

Shooting Kodachrome 10, my Argus C3 "brick" at 1/50sec was not able to freeze a set of Baldwin Centepedes as they drifted past my lens in the pit at Altoona. These were used as helper power on th... (more)

Trailing power on #13, a no name mail train to Pittsburgh is BP30#5816. Ahead, Horseshoe Curve and the climb over the mountain.

I rode #13, a mail train, early morning out of Newark to Altoona, my usual method of getting there. On my first trip there, our power on the electrified segment was a 2-D-2 electric class R1, #49... (more)

"WhirlyBird" on the C&NW. Notice UP U50 43 behind CNW C628 6729 on this eastbound freight ready to depart CNW's East Minneapolis yard for Altoona and east. In late 1973 the CNW leased a han... (more)

The big Baldwin patiently waits to start its day at the eastern end of the EJ&E.

Virginian 127, a General Electric EL2B Rectifier awaits the next call up at Roanoke, Virginia in this 1959 view.

One of Southern Pacific's three U50 diesels sits in the dead line at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles on March 16, 1975. Behind it are two Cotton Belt GP40s and, further back, a second U50.