Rio Grande train 179, the Ford Fast Freight, grinds westward along the Arkansas River in Texas Creek, Colorado. Although the heart of the grade over Tennessee Pass is still about fifty mile... (more)

The eastbound “salt train”, laden with the product from North America’s largest salt mine, and the reason for the existence of the then short line Genesee & Wyoming, rolls through Cameron, New Yor... (more)

With a consist that looks like it is the “salt train” from the Genesee & Wyoming, an eastbound Delaware & Hudson train rolls into Cameron, New York. After sending the D&H U23B fleet to the Maine C... (more)

Secondhand Locomotive Lineup

Five locomotives from three builders, all in the care of their second owners, get ready to go out on the road at the Delaware & Hudson’s East Binghamto... (more)

The sanding facilities at Delaware & Hudson’s East Binghamton engine terminal are hosting some of the usual suspects, in the form of D&H GP38-2 7320 and D&H C420 410. Also present are some relativ... (more)

One of the hostlers at Delaware & Hudson’s East Binghamton yard prepares to throw a switch for another hostler moving a pair of Alcos coming out of the engine house area.

Watercolors?

In the late 1970’s, the Delaware and Hudson repainted a lot of their units in one of several variants of a solid blue with yellow highlights paint scheme. Whether it w... (more)

The Delaware & Hudson rostered eleven Alco RS11’s and twelve RS36’s. Here RS11 “class unit” 5001, adorned in the solid yellow nose “dip job” paint scheme, stands by the East Binghamton engine hous... (more)

Which Way is Level?

Track on three different gradients is visible in this view looking across the center of Conway Yard. While a GP9 drifts down the westbound hump, a pair of SD38’... (more)

Immediately after its formation, Conrail transferred all six-axle Alco Centuries to Ohio for use in iron ore drag freight service. Of course a lot of that ore was destined for the steel mills in t... (more)

An eastbound Conrail hopper train approaches the newly renovated Main Street crossing in Royersford, Pennsylvania. The brick station was built by the Reading in 1931. After fifty years of service,... (more)

There’s quite a variety of power to be seen in this 1992 view of the area outside of Conrail’s Juniata shops. Beside the front-and-center E8’s used on Office Car Specials, the Conrail model list i... (more)

One of Conrail’s observation cars from the office car fleet needed to be wyed in Reading. A lowly GP15-1 was elected to be an “Executive E Unit” for a few short minutes.

Amid the bleak foliage of a spring that has not yet sprung, a Conrail TV train rolls west under the signal bridge between Cove and Duncannon, Pennsylvania.

An eastbound Conrail manifest stands at the sweeping curve at Cove, Pennsylvania. With headlights off, no crew in the cab, and parked on the track least likely to have an eastbound train, the trai... (more)