Ivan Safyan Abrams: Ex-PRR GP35 2312 leads a GP40 and a GP38 as they head eastbound downgrade at Bennington Curve with a train of mixed freight. July 1974
Ivan Safyan Abrams: Foreshadowing the thousands of container trains to come, Penn Central SD40 6054 leads an intermodal train toward Cresson, PA, and the west, a few short miles after climbing the mountain from Altoona. 1974.
Ivan Safyan Abrams: GP40 3147 and an SD45 use their dynamic brakes to maintain a safe downgrade speed for their following TrailerTrain at Bennington Curve, July, 1973.
Ivan Safyan Abrams: Light helpers, known as "snappers" on the PRR, drift downgrade through Bennington Curve on their way to Altoona, PA, July, 1973.
Ivan Safyan Abrams: Eastbound ight helper locomotives pass under the PRR-style position light signals at Bennington Curve, between Gallitzin and Altoona, PA. July, 1973
Ivan Safyan Abrams: Penn Central 2500 horsepower GP35, built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division for the Pennsylvania Railroad in May, 1964,, idles at the roundhouse in Mingo Junction, Ohio, 1973.
Ivan Safyan Abrams: Penn Central GP40 3095 and GP35 2274 backing on to the turntable at Shire Oaks, Pennsylvania, in 1973.
Ivan Safyan Abrams: Penn Central ALCO DL640 2404 and a companion GP40 slowly proceed from the Mingo Junction, Ohiio, turntable on a cloudy day in 1973.