After a crew accidentally shoved a single coal car off the end of the Switching Lead track at Grafton, The Car department is on scene and is using their crane and re-railing equipment to get the s... (more)

With fog from Mobile Bay, the usual Deep South summer haze, and emissions from huge nearby paper mills, it can (or could back then) be tough to get even slight color in the sky. This day was shap... (more)

On the Santa Barbara Subdivision, a Herzog RUM, ( Rail Unloading Machine ), is on the rear of a northbound Rail Train ready to unload new replacement Ribbon Rail.

Cass Night Watch. A lone Shay locomotive stands by for late light switching duty on the platform at the old C&O Depot in Cass, WV. Mower Shay #4 is the duty locomotive this evening, and th... (more)

Cass Depot, ca 1948. With the day's operations shut down several hours ago and the locomotive fires banked, a couple of Mower Lumber Co. night hostlers chat on the empty platform of the old... (more)

A six-unit set of C-Cs running engine light comes down the middle of Cherry Street and across Dooly Street. Citizens have been complaining for years about trains clogging downtown, and relief is ... (more)

New York & Atlantic RS 70 passing through Holbrook. GP38-2’s 271 & 268 are 45 years old built by EMD/General Motors at their LaGrange, Illinois Plant. My 1988 Monte Carlo SS is 33 years old bui... (more)

A GP38 and two C430’s lead an empty ore train into Conrail’s yard in Mingo Junction Ohio. In the background, an eastbound Norfolk & Western train is passing in front of the Wheeling-Pittsburgh... (more)

Most of my pictures have signals in them, as the structures and signals themselves were defining elements of a particular railroad's environment such as we'll never see again. BN 6707 is getting a... (more)

Market Street's OC (Oldest Car). Built in 1896 by the Hammond Company for the original Market Street Railway as a single truck 2 motor car, the present day historic preservation group Mark... (more)

CSXT 2797 cruises it’s way onto Michigan Avenue in Riverdale while pulling a cut of cars out of BWC Terminals.

Pete Lerro and Lerro Photography held a charter at Cass Scenic Railroad on May 1st. Mower Lumber # 4 and Greenbrier & Elk River sit at the station waiting for their next assignment as fireworks l... (more)

The mighty 611 passes a vintage 1940's Graham on it's way to the station.

On May 5th, 1987, a short CSS freight heads west on 11th Street in Michigan, City, IN with a trio of GP38-2s. Original Slide. Bob Jetmore Photo. Sam Foster Collection.

The year is 1960; this Electra 225 is fresh off the line from Buick, it's GM cousin the F7 has been out of production for a few years now but is still one of the coolest rides on the road and will... (more)