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Alan Page's Collection
 
3/19/2024
 
 
 
 
Welcome to Alan Page's Railroad Picture Archives!

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My earliest memories were within sight and sound of the PRR’s Trenton Cutoff in our Cape Cod house in Hatboro, PA.  

My dad was the son of the chief draftsman for the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines, and he grew up near the PRR and Reading's commuter stations in Chestnut Hill, PA.  He passed on his love of trains to me by giving me his huge roll of PRR calendar paintings that his dad received every year, a 1941 copy of Trains in Transition by Lucius Beebe, a box of 3x5 photos of steam and diesel locomotives, and by telling me stories of his railroad adventures.  A favorite story was of the times he walked over to the Reading Chestnut Hill terminal where the steam crews allowed him to help them turn their small steam locomotives around on the hand turntable for their return trip to Reading Terminal.

High school began a great railfan experience as I walked up and over the Trenton cutoff on my way to school.  I saw GG1's, E44's, and PC diesels that otherwise I only heard rolling through during summer nights.  Thanksgiving was a highlight of each year when my family drove across the Susquehanna river near Rockville Bridge, and passed Enola yard on our way to my Aunt and Uncle's home in Harrisburg! 

In those years my first job was at the local hobby shop, earning me enough to finance HO modeling and some slide film to begin railfanning using my dad's old Brownie camera.  For my first picture, though, my friend lent me his Kodak Instamatic and I was able to capture a PC GG-1, my all time favorite locomotive, on the Trenton Cutoff!

Soon after, my dad allowed me to drive his '73 Plymouth Scamp, and my friend and I were able to visit our first railfan spot at Abrams yard on a snowy day in January, 1977.  The former Reading Lines yard became a favorite, but soon after we visited Morrisville, Allentown, Enola, and other parts of the new Conrail.  Along the way we found colorful mixes of RDG, PC, EL, and LV power, a few GP-38's of my granddad’s Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines, many high speed GG-1's on the NE Corridor, and Alco RSD12's and RS-11's belching smoke at Morrisville.

Once able to purchase an SLR camera in February, 1977, I quickly learned to manually focus, set the light, and frame a shot while old Alco's and high speed electrics rolled by.  In all that excitement, my railfan buddy and I were able to capture some great memories of the colorful early years of Conrail, as well as the D&H, Chessie System, Amtrak, RF&P, some New England roads, and some amazing steam excursions. 

Those many trips from my senior year in high school through my years at Penn State were great adventures.  Searching for sites with maps (no GPS!), driving many hours, and climbing up rock walls were all worth it.  Security was much different then, with friendly crews and terminal workers, and it didn’t help being considerate, safe and respectful as well!  The only time we were told to leave was by Union Steel police in Pittsburgh, and this was for standing on a public road overlooking their roundhouse!

My old Kodachrome 64 slides held up pretty well for being preserved over 3 decades! 

Being away from railroad life from 1988 – 2011 raising a family in an area without any local trains, I’ve been able to begin again capturing CSX and BNSF operations after relocating to Atlanta.   I hope my contributions add to the great railroad memories past and present provided by the terrific photographers at RRPictureArchives.

You may browse my collection of pictures via the menu located on the left hand side of the page.  I hope you enjoy the collection and thanks for stopping by!

 
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Site Stats
Photos: 11,202
Locomotives:  3,711
Rolling Stock:  1,039
Locations:  104
What's New?
New Photo Albums
Scotrail 43146
   -Added 8/19/2023 6:52:10 PM
CSX 128 waits for green at Peachtree City, GA
   -Added 7/15/2023 2:30:18 PM
CSX 335 and 5246 roll through Tyrone, GA
   -Added 7/11/2023 5:33:20 PM
CSX 5291 waits for green with empties
   -Added 7/3/2023 6:17:44 PM
UP/CSX mix pauses for signal at Union City
   -Added 7/1/2023 11:44:16 AM
CSX 7790 and 5200 wait for green
   -Added 6/26/2023 4:33:46 PM
CSX 446 and 726 roll NE through Union City
   -Added 6/16/2023 5:11:48 PM
CSX 225 leads 5 units EB out of Fairburn yard
   -Added 6/11/2023 11:10:00 AM
CSX 543 and 7909 hustle SB through PTC, GA
   -Added 6/7/2023 5:51:00 PM
CSX, UP, NS mix waits for green
   -Added 6/1/2023 2:27:46 PM
Waiting for green at the Mallory Road signals
   -Added 5/31/2023 5:37:04 PM
Missed it by that much!
   -Added 5/30/2023 3:40:53 PM
Autoracks waiting for green
   -Added 5/30/2023 8:08:51 AM
CSX C40-W pair rolls autoracks through Union City, GA
   -Added 5/25/2023 4:51:29 PM
CSX ET44AH/ES40DC pair rolls through Union City, GA
   -Added 5/23/2023 4:47:51 PM
CSX 865 hustles past the old wooden trestle
   -Added 5/15/2023 4:45:26 PM
Working Fairburn yard
   -Added 5/14/2023 5:32:46 PM
Waiting for green
   -Added 5/14/2023 4:26:46 PM
Staged power at Fairburn IM facility: 2019 and 2020
   -Added 4/27/2023 5:02:20 PM
Staged power at Fairburn IM facility: 2018
   -Added 4/25/2023 5:18:44 PM
Staged power at Fairburn IM facility: 2017
   -Added 4/24/2023 5:03:53 PM
Staged power at Fairburn IM facility: 2016
   -Added 4/22/2023 10:55:52 AM
Staged power at Fairburn IM facility: 2015
   -Added 1/10/2023 4:54:24 PM
CSX mile marker 826 action in Peachtree City, GA
   -Added 9/22/2022 6:01:36 PM
CSX 117 and 5465 wait for green at N.E. Aberdeen
   -Added 9/11/2022 7:42:19 PM
Chasing CSX 73 and 8533 from Union City to Fairburn, GA
   -Added 9/8/2022 12:42:13 PM
Waiting for green at Union City, GA
   -Added 8/29/2022 4:21:36 PM
Chasing CSX 5322 and 5340 from Union City to Palmetto, GA
   -Added 8/27/2022 4:52:56 PM
Oil rolls through Union City
   -Added 8/23/2022 7:14:48 PM
Mixed freight at Fairburn
   -Added 8/22/2022 4:49:59 PM
NS operations at Valley Forge Park station
   -Added 8/10/2022 5:21:09 PM
Sunday layover
   -Added 8/9/2022 5:10:29 PM
NH&I Motive Power and Rolling Stock
   -Added 7/23/2022 5:21:40 PM
NS SD60Es at Griffin, GA
   -Added 7/23/2022 3:08:36 PM
ELM Street Station Silverliner IVs
   -Added 7/18/2022 4:55:03 PM
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Updated Photo Albums
Scotrail 43146
   -Updated 8/20/2023 3:21:32 PM
CSX 2020 Fairburn yard operations
   -Updated 8/21/2022 9:11:25 AM
A quintet of units works Fairburn yard
   -Updated 8/20/2022 5:18:24 PM
SR 2-10-4 610, Southern Crescent, AMTK, and RF&P at Alexandria, Va
   -Updated 8/13/2022 5:33:06 PM
1983 Conrail and Amtrak operations at Newark, DE
   -Updated 8/13/2022 5:06:46 PM
WM, B&O, and Chessie units at Cumberland in 1978
   -Updated 8/13/2022 2:20:03 PM
Conrail’s Juniata shops Altoona graveyard in August, 1977.
   -Updated 8/13/2022 2:08:53 PM
A year after Conrail startup, Enola was filled with predecessor and leased power(II)
   -Updated 8/13/2022 1:56:00 PM
CSX SD70MAC works Fairburn IM
   -Updated 8/13/2022 1:41:42 PM
Working Abrams yard
   -Updated 8/13/2022 1:26:32 PM
A quartet of units works Fairburn yard
   -Updated 8/11/2022 4:59:39 PM
Washington's Birthday at Abrams yard and near Valley Forge in 1982.
   -Updated 8/10/2022 5:11:11 PM
Ivy City and Pot yard in July, 1983
   -Updated 7/5/2021 5:14:40 PM
Army special speeds SB through Fairburn, GA
   -Updated 7/2/2021 2:33:36 PM
After Memorial Day weekend at Morrisville
   -Updated 6/27/2021 3:45:54 PM
Then and Now: Abrams yard 1977 vs. 2014, 2016, 2021
   -Updated 6/12/2021 10:05:06 AM
New Hope & Ivyland RR 4-1977 and 1-1978 vs. 8-24-2014
   -Updated 6/4/2021 6:41:45 PM
SEPTA Transit Worker's Union strike Day 15: 30th St Station
   -Updated 10/11/2020 9:55:39 AM
SEPTA Transit Worker's Union strike Day 2: 30th Street Station operations
   -Updated 10/11/2020 9:47:36 AM
SEPTA Transit Worker's Union strike Day 13: NEC operations.
   -Updated 9/2/2020 8:19:19 PM
Conrail and Amtrak operations on the NEC in April, 1977
   -Updated 9/2/2020 8:13:19 PM
Conrail's other Juniata shops graveyard.
   -Updated 9/2/2020 8:08:15 PM
Last days for CNJ Alco RS-3's at Elizabethport yard.
   -Updated 9/2/2020 7:59:32 PM
Conrail lashes up 10 units at Harrisburg in July of '77. Enola was hopping too!
   -Updated 8/30/2020 5:57:52 PM
Conrail and Amtrak operations at Rockville Bridge in June, 1977
   -Updated 8/17/2020 5:18:02 PM
LV legacy and D&H at Allentown/Bethlehem May, 1977.
   -Updated 8/17/2020 5:03:11 PM
Oh, those shops full of diesels!
   -Updated 8/17/2020 4:50:21 PM
SEPTA Transit Worker's Union strike Day 2: NEC operations.
   -Updated 8/16/2020 8:05:19 PM
Conrail's first winter at Abrams
   -Updated 8/16/2020 12:26:24 PM
Early Conrail days at Abrams
   -Updated 8/16/2020 11:58:08 AM
With EP-5's retired nearby, EL 20-cylinder power works at Harrisburg.
   -Updated 8/9/2020 4:45:21 PM
Downtown Philadelphia in Summer/Fall, 1976
   -Updated 8/5/2020 5:11:25 PM
Amtrak, Septa, and Conrail operations at Morrisville yard in March, 1977
   -Updated 7/27/2020 5:58:22 PM
Conrail operations at Altoona and Horseshoe Curve in August, 1977.
   -Updated 7/22/2020 7:00:06 PM
Last days for Alco RS11's at Morrisville in summer, 1977.
   -Updated 7/20/2020 11:48:44 AM
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