On a chilly morning in early October, Reading & Northern 425 works upgrade at Molino, kicking off a month of the RBMN's famed Fall Foliage Excursions, which were absent in 2020.

Baldwin Pacific 4-6-2 under maintenance in Guararema

The first Reading & Northern steam-powered fall foliage special of 2021, on its way from Reading, PA to Jim Thorpe, PA. The sound of the exhaust was as deafening as a jet-plane at takeoff; actual... (more)

A1.Trust Peppercorn class A1 60163 TORNADO climbing past Darnholme with the 09.31 Grosmont to Pickering service at The North Yorkshire Moors Railway Autumn steam Gala

USSC kicked off the 2020 harvest season by hauling the first sugar loads to the mill using its newly refurbished steam locomotive number 148! Here it is seen just after departing its christening c... (more)

Quite a few steam locomotive enthusiasts refer to the Bavarian four-cylinder express train locomotives S 3/6 as the most beautiful machines ever built. The 4-6-2 locomotive # 3673 was built in 191... (more)

Quite a few steam locomotive enthusiasts refer to the Bavarian four-cylinder express trains locomotive S 3/6 as the most beautiful machines ever built. The 4-6-2 locomotive # 3673 was built in 191... (more)

Reading & Northern 425's profile shines on a beautiful July morning.

1504 awaits its rebuild for US Sugar.

Pennsy K4s No. 1361 is bathed in its own steam, just prior to the return trip to Altoona on a rainy Saturday in April of 1987. Imagine hand-firing this locomotive up the grades west of Philly, sa... (more)

A Steamtown 4-6-2/2-8-2 doubleheader, pulling 12 cars and crossing the great Nicholson Bridge in a photo runby. I recall detraining and piling into a school bus, which deposited us in a farmer's f... (more)

Reading & Northern 425 storms up the grade through a farm as it nears the top of Hometown Hill.

Highballing home to Altoona after a day on the Bald Eagle Valley Branch PRR K4s No. 1361 has just passed the signal bridge at Tipton south of Tyrone.

Pennsy K4s No. 1361 has a respectable 8 cars in tow, crossing over at ROSE with a Bellefonte-Altoona excursion. The limit for a K4s up the mountain was 6 cars; hopefully we will get to see No. 13... (more)

Reading & Northern #425 crosses the former CNJ railway bridge at Nesquehoning Junction on the afternoon of July 4, 2021. Below is the Lehigh River flowing to the east and eventually emptying into ... (more)