A new day dawns at the Strasburg Rail Road as Great Western #90, a large 2-10-0, renews her career hauling revenue freight though the Amish rurals of Pennsylvania!
Great Western #90 simmers under a crescent Moon at the Strasburg Rail Road yard prior to a 6 AM departure to Leaman Place Junction to pick up freight left by Norfolk Southern.
A Big Engine For A Little Road. The Strasburg's largest engine, 2-10-0 #90, arrives home after another nine-mile round trip to Leaman Place.
The day is almost over as #90 leads the last train back towards Strasburg passing the farms around "Carpenters."
In July 2012, the Strasburg Railroad has been running early morning steam powered freight trains. To the best of my knowledge it is one of the only places in the United States where you can see a ... (more)
Strasburg Yard meet. After putting its passenger train away near the station, 2-6-0 89 coupled up to a couple of freight cars and caboose 12 while 2-10-0 90 returned to the station with the... (more)
Strasburg's ex-Great Western #90 prepare to uncouple and run around it's train at the Western most terminus of the line in Strasburg (Ronks), Pennsylvania. To the right is the restored former PRR... (more)
"An Amish Greeting" Strasburg Railroad's 2-10-0 #90 clears one of the line's three "tunnels" to greet an Amish farmer and son team working on a fence. To the right, a lone cow, to the far ... (more)
Looks like Paradise to me. Great Western #90 traverses a new prefabricated concrete bridge at Strasburg. The bridge was installed to better support the weight of the line's increasing freight bu... (more)
Ladies and gentleman, if you look to your right you'll see #90, our former Great Western Railway engine that once ran in Colorado. Number 90 was built by Baldwin in 1924 and purchased by the S... (more)
Former Great Western 2-10-0 #90 runs around her train, backing past the J Tower at the Strasburg Railroad after a 4 pm run.
Former Great Western 2-10-0 #90 does the honors of running on National Train Day, May 8, 2010 (also the photographer's birthday) at the Strasburg Railroad. Coming up through the grove of trees sho... (more)
#90 backing up out of the station after the day's runs. It passes buy a couple of cars used for the new freight service the railroad is providing.
Strasburg #90 charging up the grade at Carpenters Crossing.
A close-up view of Great Western #90's valve gear.
