On the first morning of the Amtrak era, the Delaware & Hudson's overnight Montreal Limited out of New York crosses the Lachine Canal outside Montreal on its final trip to Windsor Station, with PA... (more)

On a frigid Sunday afternoon, an ex-New York Central RS-3 steams up the yard at Chatham, NY, with a Penn Central upper Harlem Line commuter train on weekend layover. Come Monday morning the train ... (more)

Delaware Lackawanna SC-22 crosses the Lackawanna River on their way back to Scranton.

This PC Alco assigned "Baltimore" for servicing awaits its fate in the backshop area along with numerous other old locomotives Conrail deemed not fitting into its future plans.

Not the Scrap Yard

Although it appears that Conrail C630 6769is in a scrap yard environment, the big Alco still has life, and is on a servicing track at the engine terminal in Beth... (more)

Originally Atlantic and Danville #2, Southern New England Railroad RS32 #5012 poses at Enola Yard while in transit to its first lease assignment.

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local works at the Hercules Cement Mill in Stockertown, Pennsylvania. Veteran engineer Sherwood Singer, who hired out on the Lehigh & New England, invited us up into t... (more)

Local lore in the Allentown area said that Conrail’s ex-Lehigh & Hudson River C420’s were intended to be run until they had problems, and would then be retired. They were also not to be repain... (more)

A Long Island RR C420 sits on a train in front of the Oyster Bay Station shortly before departure for Jamaica. Looking on is a nice collection of dated cars including two VW Beetles and a Karmann... (more)

Starting the day the ALCO way.

An incredible amount of luck and timing found the former Lehigh Valley 414 working the local job in Scranton today. In a rare move taking empties after delivering salt for the City of Scranton.

Black River & Western RS3 1554 has drawn the assignment for the road’s freight train. This is one of two BR&W schemes that the RS3 wore during its nine years on the New Jersey short line. For th... (more)

Don's to do list Summer 2012.

Vermont Railway S4 6 and its short train roll through Proctor on the way way back to Rutland after working the Clarendon & Pittsford trackage around Florence, VT. This Alco was a secondhand acquis... (more)