After a pause in the siding to allow the scheduled C&TRR morning Eastbound from Antonito to pass, D&RG T-12 #168 is again on the move at Sublette, NM 9-25-21. This was a photo charter to benefit ... (more)
Posing for anyone who would like to take a pic, are GE & EMD engines waiting for an assignment. The Amtrak Crescent serves this station twice a day.
Reading & Northern's two active steam locomotives work hard up the former CNJ branch just West of Nesquehoning
Arrival of the newly minted steam locomotive from China, JS 8419 is destine for Iowa and the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad. Note the damaged cab. © 1989 Steve Crise.
During the 2022 East Broad Top Winter Spectacular, M-1 heads back into Orbisonia at the beginning of a snow squall. Within the hour the ground will become completely covered in snow. Within two ho... (more)
In homage to the classic rambles shot, Reading & Northern T-1 2102 enters the yard at Port Clinton. The ex-RDG engine is on a "Hopper Jet" test run in preparation for the R&N's Iron Hors... (more)
Reading & Northern T-1 2102 bursts out of Nesquehoning Tunnel on her way down to Jim Thrope. The ex-RDG engine is on a "Hopper Jet" test run in preparation for the R&N's Iron Horse Rambl... (more)
West bound at Valparaiso Indiana on the PRR Chicago-Fort Wayne line, in 1963. Dennis Schmidt photo, from my collection.
She may have a lot of miles on her, but she's still both beautiful and up to the job. Here Southern #630 is seen getting ready to pull another passenger special in off the grounds f the North Caro... (more)
Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 (4-8-8-4) makes its way through the Cheyenne, Wyoming yard towards the depot, where it will lash up with the passenger cars for the run to Denver, Colorado.
The 2102, starting to back down from its static display area for a photo runby past the ex-CNJ Jim Thorpe station
Wabash Railroad FA1 1202A and its mates are seen in the yard at Peru Indiana in 1959. From my collection, Dennis Schmidt photo.
Engine of Nickel and a Tail of Flags.
Coming, Going and Gone! While Reading #2102 may have ruled the summer of 2022 thus far on the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern, her sister #425, a 4-6-2 Pacific, is not interested in going quiet... (more)
Engineman Ryan Bausher tends to #2102's fire on the afternoon of July 2, 2022 within the former CNJ yard at Jim Thorpe, PA.
