CNJ 113 opens its cylinder cocks as it slowly moves alongside the Minersville station at night.

Semi retired after starting as a Seaboard Air Line GP7 over 70 years ago, this unit has to work maybe three days a week, and appears well taken care of. Other than the frame, I wonder how much of... (more)

Coupled to some beautiful old equipment including a beautifully restored PRR X29 boxcar this unit started its days as CRR 911. Many years and many owners later it labors for this Altoona-area sho... (more)

Lehigh Valley Coal Company 123 steams alongside one of the buildings at the Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine and Steam Train at night.

Reading 2102 accelerates across the Port Clinton Turntable as it heads for Tamaqua on a test run.

The position light is vertical for the 6482 in this meet at Mapleton on the old PRR Middle Division in 1993.

Crew members Chuck Trusdell, Ryan Bausher, and Shane Frederickson inspect Reading 2102's running gear before it departs Port Clinton for a test run.

Observation Platform. A visit to Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania on June 29, 2016 found former Nickel Plate Road 759 (S-2 Berkshire, 2-8-4, Lima, 1944) flanked on... (more)

Having tied on to the caboose in Altoona, a helper set of EMD (ex-EL) SD45 6085 & SD40-2 6369 are in run 8 as they keep a Westbound manifest freight moving up and over the summit of the Alleghenie... (more)

Reading 2102's air compressors warm up prior to its first run of 2024.

Philly Skyline Sunset. Evening was descending upon the Market-Frankford Line (L1) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sunday, April 14, 2024 when SEPTA M-4 1172 (AdTranz, 1997-1999) approached... (more)

Westbound coke thru CP Leets.

I116 heads up the CSX Lurgan Subdivision with the 1973 leading. Chessie Cats roamed up this line a good bit in the 1970's into the 1990's as it was one of the last sections of the Western Marylan... (more)

NS 12Z, with the "Conrail" and "Virginian" heritage units shoots through a bucolic scene just south of Brandtsville.

NS 12Z, with the "Conrail" and "Virginian" heritage units is participating in a double meet (288 is on his tail, 13R is to the right and 13Z is ahead of him). The dispatcher w... (more)