Working upgrade past the Carpenters Cemetery, former Great Western 90 has the 11am train on its rear knuckle on this dreary Spring day.

There aren't many places in the world where you can see doubleheaded steam pulling modern freight cars in regular freight service for paying customers. No. 90 & 475 are seen here in a below-the-r... (more)

A meet made in Paradise (Pennsylvania)! An early morning freight move on Friday, 12/30/2016 on the Strasburg Rail Road is met by Amtrak Keystone Service Train #646. Amtrak cab car 9646 began life ... (more)

Ex-Norfolk & Western 475 leads a train homeward on the Strasburg Rail Road on a chilly November day. Cherry Crest Farm, home of a popular corn maze and petting zoo, is quiet.

Norfolk Southern's Pennsylvania Railroad heritage unit is backing up as it passes Groff's Grove on the Strasburg Rail Road, rolling through the Amish countryside as it heads for the NS/Amtrak inte... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Pennsylvania Railroad heritage unit backs past the Cherry Hill station (Population 17 More or Less) on the Strasburg Rail Road. The unit was on display at the Railroad Museum of... (more)

Ex-Great Western 2-10-0 No. 90 leads a train from Leaman Place Junction back to Strasburg, approaching Carpenters Crossing. The Strasburg maintains some of the finest-looking trains to be found on... (more)

An eastbound Keystone service train passes the modified ex-Pennsylvania Railroad position lights at Leaman Place Junction on its way from Harrisburg to Philadelphia and New York.

A couple of pumpkins cruise by on the main as we prepare to depart on a Strasburg RR excursion. This GP9r was built as UP207. The 2nd unit, GP7 AMT780, was built as C&EI210 and became Belvidere &... (more)

Amtrak's Fall Foliage train, the Autumn Express, flies past the Leaman Place interchange with the Strasburg Railroad in Paradise, PA. With a nice-looking and powerful motive-power consist of the ... (more)

Old and Older

A steam train on America’s oldest continuously operating railroad approaches its passing of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania’s oldest cemetery. Still operating unde... (more)

Wearing its pinstriped scheme that matched the PRR engines on the roster, Strasburg 2-10-0 90 powers a mid-afternoon train from the Amtrak interchange at Paradise toward the Black Horse Road cross... (more)

Doubleheaded Pennsy Steam!

Not much steam from the Pennsylvania Railroad survived the PRR dieselization, and only four locomotives that I know of have been steamed up since the 195... (more)

The Norfolk & Western 475 is running around its train of immaculately maintained cars at Leaman Place, where Abraham Lincoln spoke to a large crowd during a whistle stop, February 22, 1861, on his... (more)

Ex-Norfolk & Western No. 475 crosses the Pumpkinville Turnpike on its return from Leaman Place Junction to Strasburg, Pa., passing through an Amish farm.