Happy Birthday 98! W&W 98 celebrates her 100th birthday this year complete with a brass band, cake, dignitaries, and of course a celebratory balloon attached to the cab.

This is about the closest one can come to replicating what it once was like meeting an inbound train to Jim Thorpe from aboard an outbound train. The second bridge over the beautiful Lehigh River ... (more)

More than the eye can take in! This air brake instruction car was originally built as a Railway Post Office car in 1910 then converted to its present form in 1928. This incredibly complex piece of... (more)

A Canadian National local runs tender first out a lonely prairie branch...courtesy of Strasburg RR, of course.

The Pufferbelly Day doubleheader crosses one of many small bridges over Red Clay Creek.

...eyes on the tracks ahead...(through some very interesting glasses I might add)

On one of the brighter moments of the day, 425 charges upgrade with her bell ringing and a perfectly clean stack on the return from Jim Thorpe to Tunkhannock.

Overhang! The RBMN steam crew looks on to make sure 425 successfully completes her spin on the turntable keeping "Safety First" as the tender flanks say. They managed to fit the 4-6-2 and both of ... (more)

425's helper diesels await her return at the unique Jim Thorpe station.

...over the river and through the woods...

Good joint!

It's tight quarters in downtown White Haven as 425 races into sight drifting downgrade.

It's a cool spring day. Squirrels play in the trees as wooden yard creatures wave American flags and steal kisses in flower beds. The carved Canadian goose isn't taking any notice, but the two min... (more)

This most unusual locomotive has been immaculately restored by the RR Museum of PA. The chunky streamlined loco was the only fireless 0-8-0 ever built. It was built by Heisler in 1939, weighs appr... (more)

Q394 pulls to a stop in the Narrows for a crew change while low clouds hang over the Will's Creek gorge. The clouds would soon lift to reveal a beautiful spring day.