Norfolk & Western 475 and its passenger crest the grade at Esbenshade on a cold winter afternoon.

"Just Passing Through" A Amtrak regional with motors on both ends approaches Frankford Junction. Snowfall from the previous week still covered much of Philadelphia and the surrounding... (more)

"Dashing Through The Snow" Snow is still on the ground in the Philadelphia region as a southbound Amtrak Acela paces itself just north of Frankford Junction.

"Passing By" Snow is still on the ground in the Philadelphia region as a northbound Amtrak Acela paces through Frankford Junction. The City of Philadelphia skyline is seen in the back... (more)

"Thunder in the Poconos": Reading & Northern #2102 thunders south towards Reading, PA outside of Jim Thorpe as she climbs the grade with the R&N Fall Foliage Special on October 14, 2023.... (more)

Reading & Northern #2102 blasts past Nesquehoning Jct on October 14, 2023 as she works hard in the rain, wide open, reversing her train for the afternoon run south to Reading, PA for an R&N annual... (more)

Norfolk & Western 475 rolls through Cherry Hill with its passenger train at sunset on a beautiful January evening.

Norfolk & Western 475 rounds the curve at Beiler's on a sunny January afternoon.

Norfolk & Western 475 rolls into East Strasburg with its passenger train on a gorgeous January afternoon.

Reading & Northern #2102, on a rainy October 14, 2023, races north to Jim Thorpe outside of New Ringgold, PA on one of the annual R&N sponsored Fall Foliage Specials.

Heavy rain falls as the sky erupts with the continuous thunder of Reading & Northern T1 #2102 making time south towards Reading, PA on October 14, 2023. Here the '02, as it's affectionately called... (more)

The rapidly setting sun is casting long shadows across the west end of Norfolk Southern's Conway Yard in Conway, Pennsylvania as two remote control jobs pull cars out of the bowl tracks. Both jobs... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 from the fireman side. I saw the 3751 for the first time on November 26, 1976 when it was still on display in San Bernardino. After it was restored by the San Bernardino Railway His... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 from the engineer side. I saw the 3751 for the first time on November 26, 1976 when it was still on display in San Bernardino. After it was restored by the San Bernardino Railway Hi... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)