Great Western consolidation 60 gave up hauling sugar beets in 1965, and came east to the tourist hauling Black River & Western in New Jersey. The 2-8-0 has now been hauling passengers for over a h... (more)

PRR Brill doodlebug 4666 prepares to depart Ringoes, New Jersey. The 1930 gas-electric has quite a boomer history, having served on the Arcade & Attica, Penn View Mountain, and the New Hope & Ivyl... (more)

Black River & Western RS1 57 and CF7 42 stand at the Road’s headquarters in Ringoes, New Jersey. The Alco began life as Washington Terminal 57, and now is stored on a siding in Quakertown, Pennsyl... (more)

Black River & Western T6 56 comes to life alongside former roster members of what are arguably the two most iconic railroads in the United States. On the left is Santa Fe CF7 2419, which will soon... (more)

In the mid-1980’s, the Black River & Western acquired former AT&SF CF7’s 2419 and 2421, brokered by the Blue Mountain & Reading, who bought several dozen of the rebuilt road switchers from the San... (more)

I didn’t manage to make it to Milwaukee Road territory until after its acquisition by the Soo Line. While many of the locomotives were already patched, there were still “pure” MILW units to be see... (more)

A pair of Louisville & Nashville U-boats work their way through the yard in Loyall, Kentucky. U25B 1623, built in 1964, is partnered with 1973-vintage U23B 2713.

A Louisville & Nashville SD40-2 leads a train past the St. Paul yard office in Virginia coal country.

A Louisville & Nashville SD40-2 in Family Lines paint waits to be sent out of the engine terminal in Corbin, Kentucky. The unit is still on the CSX roster as its 8069.

Louisville & Nashville SD40-2 3581 mingles with some GE’s in outside of the shops in Corbin, Kentucky. The unit continues in service today as CSX SD40-3 4075.

Still wearing the same paint scheme as when it rolled out of EMD’s LaGrange factory a quarter-century before, Lehigh Valley SW8 253 stands at the engine terminal in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The LV... (more)

Frankfort & Cincinnati S4 107 and S2 103 wait to leave the engine facility in Frankfort on a cloudy May morning.

The Green Bay & Western’s train from Winona crosses the bridge over the Black River just below the dam at Hatfield, Wisconsin. The guy fishing seems much more intent in pulling something from the ... (more)

With a seemingly endless string of home road covered hoppers in tow, the Green Bay & Western’s Winona train passes through Blair, Wisconsin on its return trip to Green Bay.

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel bicentennial SW9 1258 pushes a cut of cars up the ramp at Wheeling Pittsburg’s Steubenville South plant in Mingo Junction, Ohio.