Keeping with the Penn Central tradition of leasing Bangor & Aroostook power after potato season was done, Conrail utilized a BAR GP9 on May 27, 1978 in Haworth NJ to pull a ballast train both nort... (more)

Conrail #8830, weekend commuter service southbound out of Poughkeepsie, NY comes around the curve in Cold Spring, NY with Breakneck Ridge looming behind on May 20, 1978. It's led by two Penn Centr... (more)

National Locomotive was a start up locomotive rebuilder on the propery of the Morristown & Erie Railroad in Morristown NJ. They had a bunch of retired Norfolk & Western RS36s and RS11s that they w... (more)

Driving through St. Louis, I came across this surprise, and ICG GP10 waiting downtown. I am told that this was likely an ICG transfer job…either from the ex IC East St. Louis or ex-GM&O Venice y... (more)

April's Fools Day GG1s. On April 1, 1978, Conrail GG1s 4840 and 4806 bring a freight train westbound through Princeton Junction, New Jersey. Looking at other shots this day (of less interesting to... (more)

When I got into my rent-a-car and starting driving from downtown Cleveland to Collinwood Yard, it had been five and a half years since my previous visit. At that time the deadline was 90% Alco Cen... (more)

Back in the early 1980s when I was at George Washington University, I discovered that on Sundays the parking lot for the GSA building on Virginia Avenue was left open and I could just park there a... (more)

Conrail train 3361, a Saturday only Penn Station to Bay Head run, accelerates south of South Amboy, New Jersey, following swapping its GG1 for a pair of NJDOT E8As.

Still wearing her Saltair colors and even her Saltair number DS-4, Shortline Enterprises S6 #1040 awaits her undetermined fate in Fillmore.

Waiting for the bridge to be replaced and for tourist trains to start again, a Sierra Railroad train of former Fillmore & Western equipment sits at the ready.

Sierra bulldog spotted off leash in Fillmore CA... 2/4/23.

Drove up to Santa Paula, California this past Saturday (2/5/23) to see if there was a clean shot of the Sierra Railway RP20GE (SERA 2666). It was parked next to a tree, so no perfect roster for me... (more)

On the last day of my first tine ever in Chicago (July 16, 1984) my plan was to go to Marshall Field to see if I could talk to the rug and carpet buyer (the business I was in at the time). Failing... (more)

Conrail's Collinwood to Rockport yard transfer passes through the F-unit mecca (at the time) of Collinwood Yard, Cleveland, Ohio, on December 28, 1978. It is led by three dewormed Penn Central F7(... (more)

Following a Cleveland railfanning extravaganza with my friend and his dad, we headed home via Horseshoe Curve and then a stop at Altoona (shops and yards). The yards were filled with dead power, m... (more)