The times, they are a-changin’ – South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has undergone quite a bit of change since the late 1970’s, and this image captures the beginning of the change. The Bethlehem S... (more)

Winona train get ready for afternoon departure from Green Bay.

Due to increasing train lengths, Norfolk Southern and Delaware-Lackawanna have been interchanging at the south end of Portland rather than in the small yard at Slateford Jct. Here the PT power has... (more)

The photographers get a wave from the engineer as his train passes the site of the Bevier Street yard office after another successful descent of Belden Hill. His three D&H Alco Centuries, B&M GP40... (more)

The homeward-bound turn passes a derailed hopper on the siding near Murray Dam as it heads out of Little Rock into the setting sun.

I had been hanging around Holbrook that morning when I discovered that the Apache Railway was going to take some empty wagons down the line. Something which I believe doesn't happen all that often... (more)

Rare Mileage Excursion

In the 2015 season Steamtown offered a few rare mileage excursions on multiple DL branches. This would be the first of roughly a dozen rare mileage excur... (more)

A railroad down the Delmarva Peninsula - from Wilmington, Delaware to Cape Charles, Virginia - was completed by Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk in 1884. This lin... (more)

A southbound manifest enters East Binghamton yard with a mixed bag of models and paint schemes on the head end.

A new Long Island Railroad paint scheme (similar to the MILW Bicentennial unit) emerged when the LIRR GP38-2's were delivered in 1976. The blue units with the 2 white stripes were now the norm, an... (more)

Another weekend at Oyster Bay finds LIRR222, the first unit of LIRR's L2 class, along with a couple of FA power packs. The L2 class (222-229) were delivered in 1968 with hi-adhesion (aka Hi-Aid) ... (more)

The Allentown/Bethlehem area became the home of Conrail's former Lehigh & Hudson River's C420's, as well as the ex-Lehigh Valley's RS11's. Here an example of each adds blue smoke to an already glo... (more)

It’s Conrail’s first birthday, and a late-afternoon overview of Allentown yard yields a glimpse of the early progression of Conrail’s brand. On the heavy side yard throat, unrepainted Lehigh... (more)

The Arkansas & Missouri’s Fort Smith Turn enters the yard at its destination. Joining the three C420’s on the head end is a T6 being ferried to Fort Smith for local service.