At B&O's Youngstown Yard service facilities, B&O F-7A-B 4505 with Monon F-3A's 208 & 205 in May 1965. Photo by Larry Fellure , photo part of my slide collection.

To most railfans, Lehigh Valley means two things: Camelback engines with Wooton fireboxes, and long trains of anthracite-laden hoppers toiling over the mountains towards New York. The Black Diamo... (more)

The New Bridge With The "New" Steam Engine. The Reading And Northern Railroad is a consolidation of parts of several other railroads into a modern system. In February of 2020, the Reading ... (more)

After turning around on the Wye at Jim Thorpe Junction, Reading & Northern 2102 reverses past the R&Ns former Norfolk Southern F units.

Passing Geraniums neatly-planted along the platform at Hinsdale, Illinois, is a westbound Metra “dinky” accelerating after discharging passengers at the station stop on the pleasant spring aft... (more)

Several Soo Line and Milwaukee Road units rest outside the illuminated enginehouse at the locomotive facility at Bensenville Yard in Bensenville, Illinois, on the night of December 5, 1987.

Hometown Hero At Hometown Trestle. With its restoration essentially complete and a few smaller test runs under its belt, the Reading & Northern Railroad decided put RBMN T-1 2102 (4-8-4) to... (more)

"Dashing Down 1st Ave with Scrap R32s"

On the morning of April 26th, 2022, New York New Jersey Rail's "Brooklyn crew" makes their way down 1st Avenue towards 65th ... (more)

What a way to start the day....

P97 crawls into town under dramatic skies with an ES40DC and one of the recently acquired ex EMDX ACes for power. Overhead, a large flock of seagulls (billions of birds one could say) are fleeing ... (more)

A Metro Siemens set running an up Sunbury service approaches West Footscray.

A westbound Burlington Northern/Metra commuter train, led by BN E9 No. 9906, is panned past the park at the station at Highlands, Illinois, on June 18, 1989.

A bright sunrise greets the California Zephyr as Amtrak engine 151 (P42DC) passes the signal at Wiggins, Colorado.

Southern Pacific train No. 52, the southbound "San Joaquin Daylight," running south of Caliente in the Tehachapi Mountains of Southern California in January 1960. Photo by Southern Pacif... (more)