"The Setup"

In a scene "Out of the Past", Great Western No. 90 awakes from "The Big Sleep" at the Strasburg Rail Road. Some photographers approach night photography with a "Shadow of a D... (more)

Ready the Sun - cue the clouds! Can we get a plume? And... action! Sometimes puzzle pieces come together!

Downpour!

N&W No. 475 leads an excursion through the bucolic Amish countryside in Lancaster County, Pa, in the midst of a heavy downpour. Alas - this is the Strasburg Rail Road; ... (more)

While on loan to the Pennsylvania Railroad for testing, Norfolk & Western's 4-8-4 No. 611 makes a visit to Strasburg, cutting away from the PRR main by the freight house at Leaman Place. Yeah... ... (more)

N&W No. 611 emerges from a tunnel of tress at Carpenters, in Paradise, PA, along the Strasburg Rail Road.

Nothing like a cool refreshing 611 Big Gulp™ after a 9 mile round trip excursion to Paradise and back!

It's about time!

N&W No. 611 leads the 5 PM excursion past the railroad's new clock tower and on towards the station. Lancaster jeweler Brent L. Miller Railroad: Norfolk & Western
Locomotive: Steam 4-8-4
Location: Ronks, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: NW 611
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July 10, 2021

A late evening eastbound Amtrak Regional Express races past the Cornwells Heights station at sunset, bound for New York and points east.

Amtrak's E-60, No. 603, on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. I never saw an E-60 brand new (though, I did see No. Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: E-60
Location: Strasburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 603
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July 18, 2021

Lehigh Valley "Bobber" caboose - built around 1900 and retired from road service in 1937.

Per the Museum's plaque: "The early history of this car remains clouded in uncertainty. ... (more)

Reading Company's 1937 built Crusader observation car on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

This passenger car design was rather unique - each of two streamlined Reading "Crusader" ... (more)

Built by the Budd Company in 1951, Lehigh Valley No. 40 one of only two RDC-1's that the railroad owned. The RDC's were used for passenger service between Lehighton and Hazelton, PA. It later wor... (more)

Amtrak's E-60, No. 603, on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. I never saw an E-60 brand new (though, I did see No. Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: E-60
Location: Strasburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 603
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July 18, 2021

Amtrak's Acela Express climbs the grade through Chester, navigating the s-curve northbound towards Highland Ave station along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.

AMTK No. 658 storms through Chester, Pennsylvania, kicking up a plume of dust and dirt, traveling north on the southbound tracks, bound for Philadelphia. Northeast Corridor trains here, between M... (more)