Penn Central GG1’s 4850 and 4844, still carrying their PRR single-stripe scheme, wait for their next assignment at Pavonia Yard in Camden, New Jersey. Pavonia was the major yard of the Pennsylvan... (more)

In the mid-1970’s, a weekend visit to the small engine facility in Phillipsburg, New Jersey usually yielded one or two pairs of RS11’s, RSD12’s sandwiching a GP9B, and a T6. On this visit, the Bel... (more)

After Amtrak’s formation in 1971, South Amboy, New Jersey became the base for Penn Central’s largest concentration of E-units. Here a bunch of them spend the weekend at the engine terminal just a ... (more)

With the reopening of the line over Sparta Mountain, the Susquehanna could now run excursions on the Southern Division. Here an excursion from Little Ferry arrives at Warwick, New York.

The Susquehanna inspection train for its management and BOD to get a first view of its new route between its Southern and Northern Divisions rolls through Franklin, New Jersey. The recently reacti... (more)

The partially frozen Charlottesburg reservoir is quite low as a Susquehanna inspection train rolls westward on the newly-reopened NYS&W main line over Sparta Mountain.

First Views

Wearing a coat of paint that is literally hours old, New York, Susquehanna & Western F45 6370 leads an inspection trip west across the Ramapo River in Oakland, New Jers... (more)

A pair of Norfolk & Western geeps comes off of the turntable in the Baltimore & Ohio yard in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Until 1975, the main Connellsville interchange for the N&W, and predecesso... (more)

An Unlikely Trio

The 1980 National Railway Historical Society convention was actually an international event, taking place in Toronto. A Southern Railway tradition was to run a sp... (more)

With a DODX idler flat coupled to tank cars full of aviation fuel for adjacent Pope Air Force Base, the Cape Fear Railway crew pumps up air before returning to Fort Bragg. Today, the Cape Fear’s M... (more)

Two United States Army Alco MRS-1’s, operated by the Cape Fear Railway, the common carrier contracted to serve Fort Bragg, back onto received cars at the Aberdeen & Rockfish interchange. Beside D... (more)

The Aberdeen & Rockfish road train is returning from Fayetteville to Aberdeen at Skibo, North Carolina. GP38 400 has uncoupled from its train, allowing two U.S. Army Alco MRS1’s operated by Cape F... (more)

Aberdeen & Rockfish GP18 300 is in Fayetteville, North Carolina, working with the train that has arrived from Aberdeen. Thirty five years later, the GP18 can still be seen working around Fayettevi... (more)

Last Day

For 54 years, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western’s original 1930 MU cars served its suburban electrification. On their first journey they were piloted out of Hoboken by Th... (more)

Still in the paint that it had when delivered to the Erie-Lackawanna, New Jersey Transit U34CH 4174 emerges from the Hoboken end of the Bergen Hill Tunnels. The southernmost of the two parallel tu... (more)