The best steam crew in America prepares for a doubleheader freight on the Road to Paradise.

Baldwin to the rescue of EMD. The Strasburg's SW8 No. 8618 managed to pull three empties to the interchange at Leaman Place, but then stopped loading. What to do? Fortunately, No. 90 had not ye... (more)

Ex-Norfolk & Western 475 leads a train homeward on the Strasburg Rail Road on a chilly November day. Cherry Crest Farm, home of a popular corn maze and petting zoo, is quiet.

Ex-Great Western 2-10-0 No. 90 leads a train from Leaman Place Junction back to Strasburg, approaching Carpenters Crossing. The Strasburg maintains some of the finest-looking trains to be found on... (more)

Strasburg 90 pulls the last train of the night, the wine train, out of the Strasburg Station. with the Pennsylvania sunset in the background.

Strasburg Rail Road's ex-Great Western decapod #90 pulls the last hourly train up the grade from Cherry Hill in the golden light of a late November afternoon.

Strasburg 90 is seen rolling back towards the museum on a beautiful November evening.

Notable 90 is pounding upgrade by Carpenters, on its way back to Strasburg. The 1924 Baldwin has 8 cars behind its tender.

The art of hostling is becoming a lost trade nowadays. Here, SRC employee, Jeff Frost washes down the ash pan in the fine tradition of yesteryear.

Old and Older

A steam train on America’s oldest continuously operating railroad approaches its passing of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania’s oldest cemetery. Still operating unde... (more)

Strasburg 90 enters the passing siding at Groffs Grove. Prior to 1983, the decapod had a large “Strasburg Rail Road” oval emblem on its tender.

Wearing its pinstriped scheme that matched the PRR engines on the roster, Strasburg 2-10-0 90 powers a mid-afternoon train from the Amtrak interchange at Paradise toward the Black Horse Road cross... (more)

It is night and still. Then a far off chuffing is heard. You listen, pray for and get only sound you want. It comes, distant as it may be, but still it makes you feel ice water down your back. It ... (more)

#90 sounds her Reading 6 chime whistle for the crossing just outside the shops. Speaking of the Reading, Camelback #1187 can be seen on the left.

The Norfolk & Western 475 is running around its train of immaculately maintained cars at Leaman Place, where Abraham Lincoln spoke to a large crowd during a whistle stop, February 22, 1861, on his... (more)