J1a #6403 poses for a picture at Columbus. It was likely part of the PRR motive power force defending the turf on the Sandusky coal trains v. the 11 Santa Fe 2-10-4's brought in to augment the fl... (more)

One of the tank cars used to bring in the fuel the Santa-Fe oil-burners needed on a coal-burning railroad is spotted by the roundhouse. Oil burners were a western railroad fuel not akin to PRR op... (more)

Erie-built FM power #9471 sits on the turntable at St. Clair Ave. roundhouse, PRR class FF20. Behind it a Baldwin shark and showing it's tender in the stall is what appears to be #5016, leased Sa... (more)

PRR 9913 sits on the St. Clair Ave. turntable. If you look closely at the left side rails off the table you see the rail extender attached by PRR that the leased Santa Fe steam engines needed in ... (more)

To Pennsy they were just another diesel model in the ranks, online in 1955, a year in service grime showing to prove it at the time of this photo. They're at Columbus, blending in with the produc... (more)

One for the modelers: PRR kept this fire equipment handy, just in case. Was there a concealed water cannon behind the walls of the tender frame at the head end? It was stored at the St. Clair Av... (more)

Class FM H10-44 #9080 works through the switches in the PRR A Yard at St. Clair Ave. This would be day one of a week-long adventure trying to capture leased Santa Fe steam working on the Sandusky... (more)

One of (Roundhouse Foreman) Mr. Cherry's engines wait under steam at CTE. Mr. Cherry was always welcoming to the photographer and his friend Bill Rosenberg, his kindness left an impression on the... (more)

PRR's terminal switcher at Harrisburg in this era was homebuilt (Altoona Works) electric B1 #5691, which waits between assignments in the early morning of September 10, 1951 after switching cars f... (more)

CMSL's Santa Express has just pulled into Tuckahoe station, and PRR GP9 7000 is idling away as it waits for the next run North to Richland.

On a snowy March day, a PRR (Penn Central) SD45 leads a westbound manifest under the approaches to the Rockville Bridge.

The cast-steel pilot is as much a tell-tale sign that this is a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive as the keystone-shaped numberplate on the smokebox. On display in front of the Railroad Museum of ... (more)

F3's in dedicated helper service shove another one west up the slope past Alto.

The boneyard at Altoona Works, July 1952. The locomotive at the left is a 2-8-0 H Class Mikado and the one in the background is a 2-10-4 J Class Texas type.

The pair of new geeps are spotted near the old auxiliary coal dock. PRR class ES15m, in service 1951.