Union Pacific’s Big Boy in the Keystone State
I have been trackside for a lot of things over the years, but I have never seen anything quite like the last two months. Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4014 came east for the first time in the locomotive’s history, and everywhere it went, the crowds came. Not just railfan crowds, “everyone” crowds. Families staking out […]
Chasing the D&H on the Sunbury Line: May 29, 1993
In the late spring of my sophomore year of high school, Peter McGilligan and I set out early one morning from his place in NJ to chase the recently-rerouted D&H manifest pair over the Buffalo and Sunbury lines. Follow along as we chased the 555 up to Taylor, and the 556 south to Bloomsburg. 555/556 […]