Reading Pacifics wait for work at the Atlantic City end of the PRSL system. Summer season trains from Philadelphia kept these modern yet obsolete steam engines in service a bit longer than they o... (more)

The first day of the 9 day Great Britain tour

Standing out in a sea of Rock Island blue, GTW 5629 awaits a call to duty that will never come. Fitting location considering it was rusting away in a yard of the deceased Rock Island.

Standing on the embankment next to the small yard at Hammonton allows this perspective of Reading G3 Pacifics serving to augment the added trainsets for summer service trains from Philly to Atlant... (more)

Here's a tender-forward view of GS3 #215 which just yarded it's one-car train after a Saturday run. Summer season trains on the PRSL brought out the Pacifics for a last hurrah, it's only six year... (more)

A view from above the tender of the Reading steam engines shows the small yard, turnaround track, and the main in the distance. These trains filled the extra demand of the summer season runs Phil... (more)

Reading engine #218 is another of the G3 Pacifics still holding down duty on PRSL runs at this date. The PRSL Baldwin AS-16 diesels are invading though, and the Pacific's service lives are nearin... (more)

The high-level platforms at the North Philly stop offer an interesting contrast with the K4 making a scheduled stop on this Saturday run to Wildwood. The photographer has chanced fate to run up f... (more)

PRR 3882 will lead this regularly scheduled Saturday run out of 30th St. to Wildwood N.J. The photographer took this photo prior to boarding with his friend Bill Rosenberg for a day of railfannin... (more)

Engine #215 simmers after yarding it's 1-car train into the Hammonton yard.

This Saturday run in July of 1954 from 30th St. in Philadelphia to Wildwood, N.J. was led by K4 #3882. It's seen here making a station stop at Haddonfield.

Southern Pacific 2472, an immaculately restored 4-6-2 P-8 Class Pacific, threads its way through the target signals at Goldtree, just north of San Luis Obispo, California, as it descends Cu... (more)

Golden Gate Railroad Museum's, Southern Pacific 2472, climbs Niles Canyon east of Farwell with a photographers special.

London North Eastern A4 Class No. 60009 'Union of South Africa' seen chargimg through Gilsland with 'The Hadrian' railtour en-route from York to Carlisle