WB Rock Island Train on the main at Blue Island

Westbound waits to double to its train.

Rock Island West Bound holds the main waiting to double to their train.

In June 1988, the Susquehanna took delivery of four new B40-8’s, intended to bump their increasingly trouble-prone C430’s off of their stack trains, which were the hottest trains on the Southe... (more)

Utah Railway's RUT612 local (Ogden to Provo) roars eastward via trackage rights on the Union Pacific at Riverton with 16 cars for Provo Yard. The power includes a pair of Great Western Railway lea... (more)

NECR Train 608 arriving at KofKoff in Franklin.

Certainly the most impressive feature of the Lackawanna main line between Scranton and Binghamton is the Tunkhannock Viaduct, the largest concrete structure in the world when completed in 1915. Of... (more)

Snow, Stacks, and Centuries

Eastbound Sea-Land stack train NTV-4 rolls past the site of the Erie yard in Deposit, New York. Two C430’s and a GP18, all two decades old, are handl... (more)

In the mid-1980’s, the Susquehanna began running haulage trains between Little Ferry, New Jersey and Binghamton, New York. These trains, often running on weekends, became railfan events. When th... (more)

Eastbound EL train passing through Pullman Junction

The Midland hauls 49 cars downhill near Sabillasville.

The late afternoon shadows are starting to creep across the valley as a Pittsburgh & Lake Erie run-through train crosses the trestle at Buzz, Pennsylvania on the Monongahela’s Waynesburg & South... (more)

Eastbound EL train picking up orders Pullman Jct south side of Chicago

Contraction and Expansion

When the Susquehanna lost its western connection Lehigh & New England in 1961, the road suffered a forced retrenchment from Hainesburg, New Jersey to the ... (more)

As mainline Alco’s were being phased out on most Class 1 railroads, the Delaware & Hudson became large draw with its sizable fleet of RS’s and Centuries. When the New York Susquehanna & Wester... (more)