Moving freight with steam - in 2013! After many years of sporadic activity, Strasburg Rail Road is again in the freight business. Here's 4-8-0 475 spotting cars at Strasburg, where the freight lo... (more)

The cab of 0-6-0 7312 sits outside the Strasburg shop while the locomotive is undergoing repairs.

Two perfectly preserved locomotives greet visitors to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Conrail GP30 2233 and Pennsylvania E-44 electric 4465.

The well-used enginehouse at Strasburg has been serving the railroad since the 1960s. Here diesel 8618 is assisting with the movement of 2-10-0 90, inside the building undergoing needed repairs. ... (more)

The sun has just come up as the hostler aboard 4-8-0 No. 475 rakes over the fire.

Enveloped in steam, 475 backs away from the Strasburg engine house after being prepared for the first run of the day.

Definitely an oddball, Monongahela Connecting "low cab" C415 701 is displayed outdoors in the RRMofPA's yard. The location were it sits is where the museum's new roundhouse display building is sl... (more)

Lehigh Valley 40 was built by Budd in 1951 for passenger service between Lehighton and Hazelton, PA. It later worked for Reading and SEPTA before being donated by PennDOT to the RRMofPA in 1984. ... (more)

Strasburg's motor car No. 10 scampers along at Esbenshade Road, heading back to Strasburg with a late afternoon run. Assembled from a wooden passenger coach in 1915, it operated for two years as ... (more)

Ex-NYC SW8 8618 rests outside the shop as 4-8-0 475 heads for the engine house.

N&W 475 rolls along the platform with the final steam train of the day as Lancaster, Oxford & Southern motor car 10 departs for Paradise.

The last train of the day is hot on the heels of Strasburg's SW8, running just ahead of the passenger excursion, at Groff's Grove.

One of my favorite railroad authors is the late Gerald M. Best, who penned several books that populate the shelves of my library ("Iron Horses to Promontory" "Nevada County Narrow Gauge" "Snowplow... (more)

It's been a few years since I visited the RRMofPA, and I was surprised to see V&T 20 and PRR 5741 have been fenced and roped off, making this photo of museum equipment that much harder to capture.... (more)

Reversing into the Amtrak Interchange