Nickel Plate #765 rods down, captured many years back in a pan at 1/10th.
Double your pleasure! PM #1225 and NKP #765 join forces in Owosso, MI for "Train Festival" in 2009. Lerro Productions was on hand for a private charter a few weeks later utilizing both engines f... (more)
Dashing through the snow - NH&I's #40 leads an excursion to Lahaska on a sunny day after a storm the day earlier left a nice layer of snow.
Bartender - I'll take whatever you got on tap!
With a full head of steam, CN #3254 rounds the bend and charges forward while on excursion to Moscow, PA.
Steamtown's CN #3254 in 1:1 scale.
Southern Pacific Daylight #4449 overtakes a pack of chasers leaving even it's own tender struggling to keep up! A pan at 1/13th.
Leader of the pack! NKP #765 struts her stuff leading a pack of chasers on an excursion to LaCrosse, IN. No doubt, all those chasers paid for a ticket and elected to chase instead. A zoo... (more)
Clear blue skies and icy cold weather - CN #3254 charges past the signal bridge at Elmhurst and continues on towards Moscow one crisp cool Winter day in 2009.
CN 3254 storms Elmhurst en route to Tobyhanna, PA.
Built by Baldwin in 1896, this narrow gauge engine started it's career as Florence & Cripple Creek #10. It later became Cripple Creek & Colorado Springs Railroad #36, then Uintah Railway #12, the... (more)
Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the plume is so delightful...
NH&I #40 makes her way through Bucks County PA after a modest snowfall just a few short days before the end of the season, late last year in December.
Merry Christmas everyone! Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway #3759 rests in Kingman, AZ at a place dubbed Locomotive Park dressed in lights celebrating the Holiday after retiring with o... (more)
Four and a quarter.
All aboard - the New Hope and Ivyland makes several steam powered trips through scenic Bucks County, PA, a ride guaranteed to impress with both sights and sounds!
Neither snow, nor rain, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep CN #3254 from completion of her appointed rounds!
NHIR #40 crosses the third of five bridges on the line to Lahaska.
That's an open fire but there are no chestnuts roasting. No. 40 drops her fire into the ash pit after a hard days work. I've always wanted this shot and thought I'd have to wait for a charter bu... (more)
A Baldwin and a GE get tucked in prior to their next day's assignment. An EMD sits outside. It's been a busy, busy Holiday season at the New Hope and Ivyland Railroad.
More Winter Wonder Land - Compliments of your friendly neighborhood steam tourist line (and short line freight train operation).
Steam in a Winter wonder land...
'Tis the Season!
Over the mountains and through the woods... #40 meets the challenge.
CN #7470 and crew are dispatched early one bitter cold Sunday morning in January assuring a Monday arrival of goods for the lines important customers. Part of a Lerro Productions charter.
Top of the Morning!
The Canadian wilderness, like no other place on Earth, except, perhaps, Pennsylvania. CN #3254 feels right at home this Wintry December day.
Engineer Chris LaBar opens the throttle as he looks back and gets the "all clear" wave from the conductor. Taken at 1/8th - note the blurred wave of the conductor and motion in the drivers.
Steamtown, USA.
Through a maze of tracks, both the conductor and engineer (Bill Johnson) work together making sure they safely reach their destination.
With some 60 passengers stranded due to an avalanche on Nay Aug Pass, CP #2317 is pressed into emergency service in a rescue operation but time is of the essence! She must leave immediately. Yea... (more)
Steamtown's CP #2317 closes the year on a series of short excursions from Steamtown to the former Lackawanna Station and return, seen here amidst a heavy snow fall in December.
CP #2317 storms past the former DL&W Mattes Street Tower in a gritty scene nostalgic of the late 50's. Note the signals to the right which at one point guided entrance and exit to and from the fo... (more)
Traversing the mountains of Northern Pennsylvania, CN #3254 takes the lead with a full consist headed East out of Scranton, PA during a Steamtown Winter run.
Front row seats to an event of a lifetime - part of a Lerro Productions charter with PM 1225 and NKP 765.
PM #1225 and NKP #765 : At twilight's last gleaming.
Pulling with all her might, #40 brings her consist of Fall foliage admirers through the woods and up the grade, her tender light announcing her presence at the grade at Lower Mountain Road.
2:26 PM - When the sun and track line up for an in-the-woods sunny day photo of New Hope's 2-8-0 #40.
CN #3254 on a near perfect Autumn day excursion through the NE part of PA.
En route to Moscow and points East, CN #3254 makes her way past the Elmhurst resevoir on a perfect Autumn day.
Leaving (most of) the snow behind, CN #3254 continues East towards the town of East Stroudsburg, PA in a classic railroad scene.
Arctic Autumn Blast!
My Christmas card came early this year...
Canadian National #3254 makes her appearance through the foliage during an unusual Autumn snow storm en route to East Stroudsburg, PA.
Reading & Northern #425 rustles up some fallen leaves in Eastern Pennsylvania in a colorful Autumn scene.
R&N #425 adds a splash of blue (and sand) to the Fall foliage of Eastern PA. Note the engineer leaning out the cab in a classic pose.
Abstract in blue.
Western Maryland #734 poses at the end of the Scenic's line that once continued under Frostburg, MD.
This is what the light at the other end of the tunnel looks like once it clears - stop, look and listen! A 1/6th zoom pan.
For more zoom pans, select your preference: Railroad: Western Maryland Scenic RailroadLocomotive: Steam 2-8-0Location: Frostburg, Maryland, USALocomotive #: WMSR 734Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: October 19, 2009
I'm an equal opportunity panner - this is for those who prefer the engineer's side. A bit of blow-by made for an exciting photo op! A 1/6th pan at Helmstetter's Curve.
Western Maryland #734 rounds the bend at Sunnyside.
An early morning view from within Helmstetters Curve. Compliments to Carl and crew for running a series of three charters to support the rebuilding of Helmstetter's farmhouse which was lost to hi... (more)
Western Maryland #734 thunders through an opening of Fall foliage at it's peak.
Speed lettering and fireballs - a Western Maryland hallmark. A fireman's side Railroad: Western Maryland Scenic RailroadLocomotive: Steam 2-8-0Location: Corriganville, Maryland, USALocomotive #: WMSR 734Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: October 19, 2009
The colors of Fall surround CN #3254 as she clears Nay Aug tunnel and dips under the signal bridge.
Got plume?
A splash of color, compliments of not only Autumn, but also the the Reading and Northern!
The light was perfect at Mahanoy Jct... but the train was no where in sight. Moving further back, kept the window open. Thanks for the plume guys!
A good 'ol fashion runby! It's 1958 and the Nickel Plate Railroad is about to retire #765 but not without one last hurrah. Fans gather by Carland's Elevator with their Rolleiflex, ... (more)
Two Berks soldier on...
As the world sleeps... silhouette
Canadian Pacific #2317 shows off her profile on Steamtown's turntable. The drivers for this Pacific class locomotive are impressive at 6'3" high. Currently, the engine is limited to yard shuttle... (more)
Choose your flavor - UP Big Boy #4012 poses next to an Amtrak Genesis unit visiting during Steamtown's Railfest in 2009. Just over to the left, Canadian National 4-6-4T #47 can be seen.
Deep in the woods of Northern Pennsylvania, Canadian National #3254 works it's muscle up the grade at Elmhurst en route to Moscow, PA. Compliments of Steamtown National Historic Park.
If ever a location said Strasburg Railroad, Groff's Grove would be the place.
Great Western #90 seems to have riled a few feathers here. I guess the birds thought the day was over with the absence of a 5 PM train.
Spending the day in Strasburg has brought out the dark side of me...
A Decapod in Paradise.
For those about to ride... we salute you! Steamtown had a very successful weekend during it's now annual Railfest Weekend as witnessed by the huge crowd that not only got to r... (more)
CP #2317 takes the spot light during Railfest 2009 at Steamtown.
I know what you are thinking... Amtrak during the early days when they were still using left over equipment, but, nope, you'd be wrong. Former Canadian National #3254 leads a loaded string of for... (more)
It's early dawn and the morning parade of heavy freight manifests begin rolling through America's heartland. NKP #765 along with PM #1225 team up in a double-headed pan... (more)
NKP #765
The War is over. Fancy F units from EMD are being assigned to luxury passenger trains but steam reigns supreme on the Pere Marquette when it comes to moving freight across the heartland. Times a... (more)
Nickle Plate #765 storms past the most photographed grain elevator in MI with 34 freight cars in tow. Compliments of Lerro Productions, SRI, FWRHS and Great Lakes Central.
The illusion of speed was no illusion... Welcome back #1225! Having captured both NKP #765 and more)
A storm front approaches from the South... Fort Wayne, Indiana, to be exact. A special thanks to Lerro Productions and the crew from Fort Wayne and SRI for this amazing time trek.
Canadian National 2-8-2 #3254 rounds a rock cut just before crossing Roaring Brook and entering the Nay Aug tunnel in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
4-8-8-4, that's 12 axles, not 6 axles, not 18 wheels, but 24 wheels on the rail: When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight... A "new" view from Steamtown.
Union Pacific #4012 prepares for another day of "oooohs" and "ahhhhs" as the star static steam attraction at Steamtown National Park. Seen here under a new coat of flat black primer paint.
DOUBLE TAKE?!? Jens, Montana? Nope, actually, we are in Ithaca, MI. SP #4449 rounds the bend and passes not the second, but rather, the most photographed barn in Michigan. ... (more)
SP #4449 often coined "the Most Beautiful Engine in the World" seen here in a Railroad: Southern Pacific RailroadLocomotive: Steam 4-8-4Location: Bannister, Michigan, USALocomotive #: SP 4449Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: July 24, 2009
I'll take your horse and raise you a plume and a barn! NKP #765 makes her way through the rural countryside of Michigan, en route to Alma. Well over 700 excited passengers were along for the r... (more)
Berkshire or Kanawha, the 2-8-4 is an impressive engine and this is reflected in it's original designation: Class A-1.
Train Festival - 2009, first of hopefully many such hugely successful steam events. Represented here: Little River's #1 and #110, Pere Marquette #1225, Southern Pacific #4449, and Nickel P... (more)
Men, women, and children of all ages get their due reward after patiently awaiting the arrival of NKP #765. Each engine's arrival during Trainfest was followed by several runbys to the delight of... (more)
There's a new engine in the neighborhood: NKP #765 makes her presence known in Owosso, MI.
