The two T-1 steam locomotives have been serviced at Tamaqua and are running up to be coupled on to the Ramble once more. This September Saturday was just perfect in terms of both the train and the... (more)
Reading T-1 4-8-4s 2124 and 2100 perform a photo run along the Schuylkill River with an Iron Horse Ramble. These Rambles may have been the finest railfan excursions ever as the Reading went all ou... (more)
Former Erie F3 7101 leads an A-B-B-A set on an eastbound freight as the semaphore near the Endicott station drops. This late model F3 had been 710-A on the Erie and the type was sometimes referred... (more)
Three former Lackawanna Train Masters are eastbound with hopper cars on a Sunday. The big units were often used on weekend freights as they weren't needed for commuter trains. There was no mistaki... (more)
This railfan excursion was sponsored by the Branford Electric Railway Assn. and toured several former Erie and Lackawanna lines. It was powered by the only two PA-2 units and the entire train seem... (more)
Alco PA-1 853 now belongs to Erie-Lackawanna but still wears Erie green, its second color scheme. This was a Saturday morning and this unit and several RS-3 units were idle in the small yard.
Reading T-1 2100 and the combine have been turned on the wye as the fans lay over in Gettysburg and is ready to pull the Iron Horse Ramble back up the picturesque branch.
Reading T-1 2124 has been cut off from the Iron Horse Ramble as 2100 takes over for the run to Gettysburg. The direct broadside was shot from the open coach window during the engine change.
PHOEBE SNOW is stopped at the Blairstown station behind Lackawanna's first E8 unit. This engine and 811 had been EMD demonstrators in the DL&W color scheme with the GM shield on the nose.
Word had gotten around that the Reading was going to doublehead the previously advertised October 15th Ramble to West Milton, Pa. and the fans really turned out. The big 4-8-4s have the 22 car tra... (more)
Two of the Lehigh Valley's newer Alco RS-11 units are teamed with EMD F units on a westbound freight at Bethlehem.
Lehigh Valley PA-1 units have been pressed into freight service after the demise of most of the railroad's passenger service. The Lehigh Valley discontinued all passenger trains early the followin... (more)
Lehigh Valley RS-2 214 has just a double door NYC box car and caboose in tow in front of the Bethlehem station.
Lehigh Valley GP18 304 leads a mixed consist of Alco RS-11, Alco and EMD F units on a westbound freight at Bethlehem, Pa..
A clean wood-sheated caboose brings up the rear of a Reading westbound freight pulled by F7 274.