Boy were we spoiled! From 1987 to 1992 both of these fantastic steam engines were running mainline excursions and ferry moves on the Norfolk Southern System. This double headed run is somewhere so... (more)

RBMN #425 turns the excursion on the wye at Jim Thorpe, PA in preparation for the return run to Reading Outer Station.

RBMN #425 blasts out of the tunnel under route 93 at Nesquehoning, PA with the return excursion from Jim Thorpe to North Reading.

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)

Will this happen in 2023 ? Have a great New Year.

Reading & Northern 425 opens its cylinder cocks before leaving Port Clinton on its second-to-last day of operation.

Westbound at Pine Lodge California, with 46 freight cars at 25 MPH, on April 26th 1933. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Departing eastbound from La Junta Colorado on October 2nd 1932. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

New Hope & Ivyland #40 running around its train at Lahaska.

Ready to Go! N&W 1218 will shortly be towed out of the Roanoke Transportation Museum and then on to Birmingham Alabama to be overhauled. Sections of panel track have been laid into the museum fro... (more)

One Number Away. A full time resident on Huntington, WV, CO 1308 (née-Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, 2-6-6-2, Baldwin, 1949) sits in a park on display on Tuesday, October 18, 2022. While CO... (more)

Looking east at Travel Town, with a line of smaller display locomotives on the track to the left.

Western Pacific #26 is a 2-8-0 Consolidation.

Pickering Lumber #2 is a three-truck Heisler.

Los Angeles Harbor #31 was one of two 0-4-0Ts donated to Travel Town by the Harbor in the 1950s. This locomotive's cab disintegrated over time. The present cab is a replacement that was built by a... (more)