The day before Cal's last trip to the Rose Bowl.......

B&O E9A 1441 looks to be ready to head out of Washington Union Station while a PRR GG-1 looks on in the background. The old B&O livery was very dignified.

At Linden Rd. the signals on the bridges have been converted from lower quadrant semaphores by this time (1950 comparison photo linked below), but the B&O intercity passenger fleet would soon retr... (more)

April 1958 was the last month of B&O passenger operatons out of the Jersey City terminal. John and his friend Bill Rosenberg spent that month trying to capture as much B&O passenger train action ... (more)

A class S2 Electric locomotive is switching passenger cars in the Mott Haven Passenger Car Yards (looking West, North of the 153rd St Bridge). New York Central intercity passenger cars were servic... (more)

Eastbound Virginian Rwy coal loads working upgrade near Clark Gap, WV in February 1957. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.

An old box camera photo shows Jersey Central T-38 camelback 774 being turned at Jim Thorpe after servicing. John Dziobko has some nice color shots of this engine from 1954 on the website but none ... (more)

A K4 hustles down the high iron with a commuter train.

The farewell to the Reading FP7s trip in March 1976 passes through Edison, NJ on the Port Reading Branch during an intense thunderstorm. The wind gusts must have been somewhere between 50 to 75 m... (more)

Stopping at the old Claymont station - superelevation not helpful!

Virginian Railway had some interesting electric power as seen on this coal drag at Covel, WV. There was a matching pair on the tail end of this train. Unfortunately, these disappeared after the ... (more)

On the left, the Nellie Bly pauses at Trenton, named after the globetrotting intrepid newswoman of the early 20th Century. On the right, possibly PRR #4666, a JG Brill OEG 350 Diesel-electric Do... (more)

The hazy skies of the Steel City dominate the downtown skyline scene in this view as seen from the platforms during PRR's early 50's station renovation. A pair of PRR E8's in Brunswick Green hav... (more)

A commuter train departs Red Bank. The engine is crossing a diamond of the CNJ line to southern NJ. Ansco Color original.

Burlington 4-6-4 4000 was built in 1930 as No. 3002, a member of class S-4, by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. This class had 78-inch drivers, boiler pressure of 250 pounds per square inch, and 25x2... (more)