On a beautiful, but cold, winter day, Norfolk & Western 475 pulls a short train past an Amish farm on Long Curve.

With the temperature right at the freezing mark and a anow squall just starting to fill the air with flakes, Strasburg’s 4-8-0 475 brings the last train of the day through Carpenters.

N&W 475 backs up for another photo runby on this beautiful fall morning as a lone burro helps itself to some breakfast.

Foreign Power. Norfolk & Western M-Class 12-Wheeler #475 sits in the hole next to the Pennsy interlocking tower at Lemoyne Junction, PA, awaiting clearance to proceed with her freight.

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"Lantern Girl" heads off to work. Carrying a large cache of kerosene-burning railroad lanterns, our PRR "Lantern Girl" leaves the J-Tower for the nearby yard, to distrib... (more)

Babying the beast. As his chartered photo freight sits in the hole at Groff's Picnic Grove, awaiting the passage of the hourly passenger train, a Strasburg Rail Road Engineer takes advantag... (more)

Yard Limit. The engineer on Norfolk & Western M-Class Locomotive #475 closes his throttle as his short mixed train passes the yard limit on approach to a rural station where they'll pick up... (more)

Flanked on both sides by Christmas lights at Strasburg Rail Road’s East Strasburg station complex, Norfolk & Western 4-8-0 #475 takes water at the water tank on December 18, 2021. Wishing a Merr... (more)

A very unique piece. The Strasburg Rail Road's ex Norfolk & Western M-Class Locomotive #475 charges upgrade just east of the bridge over the "Pumpkinville Turnpike", hauling a vin... (more)

Classic Carpenters. From the west wall of the oldest cemetery in Lancaster County at Carpenters Crossing, we see a pair of groundskeepers watching the passage of a steam-powered mixed train... (more)

Waking up frosty East Strasburg. It's not even 7AM yet and the sleepy folks in Pennsylvania Dutch Country are getting a rather spectacular wake-up call as the last operational Norfolk & Wes... (more)

NW 475 leads to 12:30 excursion back to East Strasburg.

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)

They say that black smoke is a sign of waste for steam locomotives. While that may be true - from a railfan's perspective it is quite the look! The 475 is shown here, displaying massive plumes of ... (more)

The last run of the 475 for the weekend is seen just past the Pumpkinville Turnpike in some great late evening sun.