LMS 46233 'Duchess of Sutherland' during the Tyseley Locomotive Works Open Weekend.
Reading & Northern 425 couples up to its train as life goes on in the town of Jim Thorpe and as RBMN 5018 rests on a siding.
Reading & Northern #425 and EMD SD-50 #5018 pose side by side in front of the "witch's hat" of the Jim Thorpe Train Station. 5018 was acquired in 2019, and was repainted just before this... (more)
Reading & Northern 425 slowly pulls forward out of Jim Thorpe as it heads to the coaling dock near the turntable at the far end of the yard.
Reading & Northern 425 backs up to its train with its cylinders open to clear debris that has accumulated overnight to prepare for the day's excursions.
Just before the sun peeks through the trees above the surrounding mountains, Reading & Northern 425 does some switching moves, blasting steam out of her cylinders
Reading & Northern 425 opens up its cylinders to clear debris that has accumulated overnight to prepare for the day's excursions
Reading & Northern 425 moves for the first time in the morning. With engineer Chad Frederickson at the throttle, excess water and steam is cleared out of the cylinders as they begin to move.
USSC #148 steams by the north shops on its way to the mill.
Reading Blue Mountain & Northern 425 sits before the turntable at Jim Thorpe, Waiting on the return trip to Reading on one of the railroads fall foliage excursions
On a crisp fall morning, Reading and Northern 425 awakes the little town of Port Clinton as it brings its train in for station stop on the way to Jim Thorpe. The 1928 Baldwin Pacific is seen passi... (more)
just before Sunrise, Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Pacific 425 has just recently been awakened for another days work, and prepares to head towards Reading Outer Station for a fall foliage run... (more)
Reading & Northern #425 blew down her boiler on the mainline outside of her home in Port Clinton, PA on the cold but clear morning of December 24, 2019 sending last year's fallen leaves for a stea... (more)
"Station Scenes": Back lit against the morning sun, ex-Gulf Mobile & Ohio pacific #425 met her train at the Reading Outer Station in Reading, PA on December 24, 2019. For the entire mont... (more)
Frigid and sub-zero centigrade temperatures have frozen water runoff on the rock formations outside of the Reading & Northern’s steam shops in Port Clinton, Pennsylvania as the former Gulf Mobil... (more)
Reading & Northern #425 frames out the turntable as she creeps out of her home in Port Clinton, Pennsylvania.
"A Monochrome Morning": Reading & Northern #425 and her crew busily prepare for another day of hauling passengers along the former Reading Railroad and Central of New Jersey right-of-way... (more)
Reading and Northern 425 prepares to take a spin on the turntable at Jim Thorpe with the future JTEX power behind it, including a former CSX SD50.
Reading and Northern 425 brings the Autumn Leaf Excursion into Jim Thorpe on a sunny Saturday afternoon. The JTEX power and train lays over in the yard behind the turntable.
"Taking a Spin"
After bringing the Autumn Leaf into Jim Thorpe, Reading and Northern 425 heads to the turntable to spin around for the trip back to Reading. Behind the steamer in the yard is the JTEX power and tr... (more)
Golden Gate Railroad Museum Southern Pacific No. 2472 is fired and prepped for Memorial Day excursions thru Niles Canyon.
The first annual Reading and Northern Autumn Leaf excursion arrives at Jim Thorpe, PA, with Pacific 425 and SD40-2 3052 lead the way towards the station, which lies just around the corner.
"Jim Thorpe Arrival"
SR 34092 'City of Wells' brightens an otherwise grey day as it passes Swithland Sidings with the 1000 Loughborough - Leicester North during the Great Central Railway's Autumn Steam Gala
A rediscovered negative shows PRR K4sa 612 sitting at the South Amboy engine terminal on a hot June day. The engine had arrived early with a 12 car train from Bay Head. K4s 5379 sits behind. An em... (more)
This is a special train by ABPF from Guararema City to Cesar de Souza Station (City of Mogi) in commemoration of the Cambuci (a typical regional fruit). The Pacific #353 received a new painting,... (more)
A busy industrial scene sees LMS 6233 'Duchess of Sutherland' pass the Toton Traction Maintenance Depot at the head of the 1Z41 'Yorkshire Coronation' 0751 Derby - Scarborough while in the backgro... (more)
LNER 4464 (LNER 60019 'Bittern') and LNER 4468 (LNER 60022 'Mallard'), the worlds fastest steam locomotive, re-create London Kings Cross 'Top Shed' 34A during the Barrow Hill Roundhouse's 'FAB 4' ... (more)
Steamtown morning. The crew is getting Canadian Pacific No. 2317 ready for a day on "The Scranton Limited."
The engineer and fireman on the ATSF 3415 compare time and orders before taking charge of the 1919 built Pacific Type Baldwin 4-6-2.
Locomotive: ATSF 3415, ASV 4
10-3-15 Abilene, ... (more)
RBMN 425 burns through the switches on the old Reading Company main at Port Clinton, Pennsylvania.
R&N #425 pulls a passenger consist through Port Clinton during the Schuylkill Haven Borough Days.
R&N #425 takes a spin on the turntable.
At dusk, Engineer Chad Frederickson takes over the right hand seat and completes switching moves after a long day on the high iron.
The R&N 425 and CNJ 113 are catching the last rays of a late November sun as they storm out of Cressona Yard, returning to Minersville.
Switching a steam engine. With GP9 CP 1608 watching at right, SW1200RSm CN 1382 switches 4-6-2 CN 5550 in the yard in Exporail, with the Hays Station in the background and a streetcar passi... (more)
Virginia Central Railroad is making its departure from Staunton. In the early 1990s the Virginia Central Railroad ran excursions from Charlottesville to Clifton Forge, Virginia on CSXT. Due to i... (more)
Special passenger train celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Argentine central railroad, run between Pérez and Rosario Noerte station.
Looking rather incomplete, AT&SF Pacific #1316 waits quietly in the yard at Rusk. Her new boiler is on site, but an engineering oversight means it will need rebuilt before it even has its first fi... (more)
T'was the Night before Charter
While many patrons of an upcoming Lerro Productions charter were relaxing late at night in their rooms, things were a stir at the roundhouse in Port Clinton... (more)
Ex-GM&N 4-6-2 No. 425 rests at the Port Clinton shops of the Reading & Northern, between a freshly shopped GP30, and an SD40-2. 425 is waiting on some shop time for some minor repairs, and a brill... (more)
Switching at Jim Thorpe Station. After dropping her passenger consist just south of Jim Thorpe Station, the Reading & Northern 425 begins a set of switching moves that will reverse her trai... (more)
On the Table at Jim Thorpe. With the snow intensity starting to really pick up, the Reading & Northern 425 is turned on the Jim Thorpe Turntable. This structure is not motorized and is ess... (more)
Goooood Morning Port Clinton! The quiet calm of a frigid winter morning in the tiny hamlet of Port Clinton, Pennsylvania is suddenly broken by the staccato bark of the Reading & Northern's ... (more)
"Night Moves"
It's actually just before 6 AM and patrons begin to set up for a runby at the Port Clinton yard. Meanwhile - over by the roundhouse, the crew throttles #425 for a positioni... (more)
The old and the less old. The star of the show, former FEC 148, rests at the south locomotive shop being serviced prior to operating the last excursion of an excursion filled weekend running betwe... (more)
Locomotive Number corrected
Another day, another spin... What's amazing about this scene is that there is nothing amazing about this scene. Yet again, we see R&N's #425 take a spin on the turntable to orient the engi... (more)
See the trailer for the video here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWlxhNuwSofkdFufpoRPf0g It is September 7th, 2015 and it is the final day of excursions for Southern Pacific 2472 on the Niles... (more)
The disciples watch as the deity is groomed in the uniquely named Jim Thorpe PA. Where once endless trains of Pennsylvania's black wealth were prepared for the journey through New Jersey to New Yo... (more)
Almost that time of year again, when we can enjoy the sites and sounds of the little blue pacific that can.
01 150 and 01 180 were supplied with water in the Steam engine museum. Now they are shunting back to the front of the train . In the background the locomotive shed of the museum
The forbidden picture
The Tourist Train of Guararema operated by Pacific #353, a great locomotive with three cylinders and 147 ton.
CN logo reflecting off an old GO Transit car. CN 5550 is a 4-6-2 built by Montreal Locomotive Works for the Canadian Government Railways in 1920. The CGR was absorbed into CN soon thereafte... (more)
A4 LNER 4464 'Bittern' on the shuttle service during Barrow Hill's 'East Coast Giants' Weekend which featured temporarily repatriated A4s, LNER 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower from Wisconsin, and LNER 6... (more)
SP&S Locomotive 621, rebuilt in Portland roundhouse from SP&S Locomotive 107. The original locomotive was built in August 1910 (Class D-1 4-6-0). Locomotive re-entered service on December 22, 19... (more)
The Reading & Northern's 4-6-2 Pacific #425 pulls their annual Autumn Leaf Train Excursions from Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe and return, here we see 425 pulling off the turntable to take on coal. T... (more)
Standby power lays over in the coach yard next to (then) Philadelphia Municipal Stadium on the south side.
Southern Pacific 2472, a Baldwin 4-6-2 Pacific, does a photo runby at Brightside Yard at the start of the Labor Day Run at the Niles Canyon Railway.
Reading & Northern #425 preparing for departure from RBMN's Penobscot Yard to pull an excursion train south to the town of Jim Thorpe, PA and return.
Bright sunshine at 1:15 p.m. illuminates the large crowd and two of the six A4 Pacifics on Friday at Shildon. Both of these locomotives and Bittern were steamed up.
Three of the six A4 Pacifics are lined up at Shildon on the Friday of the celebration, "The Great Goodbye". The engines are Sir Nigel Gresley, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bittern. The lighting was po... (more)
The smallest standard gauge 4-6-2 ever built, by Baldwin in 1911, was for the Little River RR in Townsend, Tenn. It served the Smoky Mountain RR for a number of years, and was restored in 1975 to... (more)
Photographer- Unknown at this time- possibly R. Hartman. Original 35mm Kodachrome slide Purchased from R. Palmer. Here we find the last Southern Rwy Ps-4 sans tender in Alexandria, VA after ... (more)
Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 powers the Scranton Limited at Steamtown on this special day. The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train has arrived in Steamtown and the Scranton Limited passengers get a good loo... (more)
Reading and Northern #425 is moving to the turntable in the former CNJ Jim Thorpe Yard to be facing the right way for the trip back to Port Clinton.
Locomotive 425 waits for the last crew member to climb on board before storming out of Port Clinton
425 Takes a spin on the turntable in Jim Thorpe Pa taken October 13th during the fall runs
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R&N 425 Once Again Returns to the Lehigh Line! The Pittston to Jim Thorpe excursion is heading southbound at Penobscot.
In honor of the "Four & a Quarter" moving again this week, here it is at one of it's previous excursions. I did it in black & white to see it without it's normal bright blue. Note how much air can... (more)
Some sweet SOO to see at Two harbors courtesy of the North Shore Scenic Railroad.
