A busy morning at horseshoe curve as the sun has just risen high enough to ignite the spectacular fall colors that were still hanging on this fall. In fortunate timing the head end of a manifest ... (more)

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

The Reading and Northern F9A, B set lead an excursion from the "NEW" so called Outer Station in Reading to Jim Thorpe on one of the Fall Color Tours. A beautiful sight to NOT have a ano... (more)

New Hope & Ivyland GP9u 8218 heading to Lahaska with the 11:00 train.

The sun sets in Cassandra, PA on a cold winter day, as a Norfolk Southern manifest climbs the grade up the Allegheny Mountains. The vivid sunset has hues, making the snow appear purple on the grou... (more)

Reading & Northern 425 pulls onto the Port Clinton Turntable on a miserable December morning.

Its been a long day for the Delaware Lackawanna road crew and they are making a run at getting back home before running out of hours. Once they pass all is again quiet and it signals the end of an... (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)

4 DL units, each a rarity in their own rights, hide out under Linden Rd as the sun comes up on another day in Scranton, PA. The sun managed to find a gap as it rose over an otherwise overcast day.

The Pocono turn is almost complete with their work swapping lumber loads at Bestway lumber in Cresco and will continue their journey east as fall color explodes around them.

Westbound on the Pittsburgh line at milepost 263.

April 29, 1978, Allentown PA - the unique high-short hood LV RS3 (which they acquired from corporate parent Pennsylvania Railroad), was still in her LV colors, be it with stenciled "CR" and Conrai... (more)

Former Conrail CR 6766, SD-50, Rebuilt as an SD40E heads up a west bound train over the Rockville Bridge towards ENOLA Yard.

Reading 2102 rests in Reading after successfully completing its first Fall Foliage Excursion upon re-entering service in 2022.

Executing a "hard start". On most railroad photo shoots, run-bys are initiated out of sight of the photo line from around a curve or behind a stand of trees. This serves two purp... (more)

Fifties classics cross paths. In what could be a scene out of the mid-1950s on one of the Norfolk & Western's Ohio routes, the J-Class Northern #611 charges through a rural crossing as the ... (more)

The "Spirit of Roanoke" rides again. Norfolk & Western J-Class #611, "The Spirit of Roanoke" hauls a short passenger special westbound on Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail R... (more)

Rise and shine 611. Just moments after sunrise, Norfolk & Western J-Class Northern #611 makes a spirited charge across the Amish Farmland along Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, hauling a... (more)

The Pocono turn passes the tower in East Straudsburg and heads back to Scranton after dropping cars at the paper mill in Delaware Water Gap. Built in 1908, the East Stroudsburg Railroad Tower stan... (more)

Passed The Test. Reading and Northern Railroad - Passenger RBMN T-1 2102 (4-8-4) passed by the former Reading Railroad Station in Tamaqua, PA on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 under its own power ... (more)

With the fall colors popping, NRFF heads back down the RBMN Main Line with a pair of SD40-2s for power.

I stayed overnight in a dump of a motel, got up a 4:45 AM, got soaked in the rain, drove 400 miles round trip, spent hundreds of dollars, and after waiting 27 years, was it worth it?

You bet you... (more)

37T enters the Lehigh Gorge with a consist of New England bound traffic.

A late NS 37T heads through Glen Onoko on a rainy fall morning.

R&N 2102 thunders across the Little Schuylkill River over the seldom photographed bridge at New Ringgold under a steady drizzle.

After all 900 or so passengers disembarked from the train, Reading & Northern 2102 leads the 19 car passenger train around the Wye at Jim Thorpe Junction.

The 2102's stack blast during the climb up Hometown Hill was a veritable tornado, leaving a whirlwind of falling leaves in its wake.

Reading 2102 lives again!

Preeeesent.....ARMS! Federal troops guarding the Herr's Mill Covered Bridge salute the passage of the train bearing the remains of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. ... (more)

In the beautiful morning light, the Reading & Northern's F-Units prepare to depart the station at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania for an Office Car Special to Pittston. Although I'd still rather have ... (more)

Now arriving at Ironstone. With the April sun sinking low in the western sky, the 2022 re-enactment of President Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train pulls into the station platform know as &quo... (more)

late Night in Port Clinton After the main event was all said and done the after show began. 2102 waits in Port Clinton to be taken up to Hawks Wye to be turned northward before returning ba... (more)

Reading 2102 prepares for its first public excursion in over 30 years. 2102's cylinder cocks were opened creating a dramatic steam show early in the morning.

After intense thunderstorms in the area, the weather quietened down for a pleasant sunset as WNYP's Farmer's Valley job heads north on the Farmers Valley branch and crosses the Allegheny River.

Rods Down & Gettin' Outta Town - After a 3+ hour layover for passengers to explore the town of Jim Thorpe, Reading & Northern T-1 #2102 departs headed back for Reading at the Yard Limits of Jim Th... (more)

With wheel slips aplenty due to the heavy rain, Reading & Northern charges across the Marian Ave crossing near Barnesville, PA with a train of 50 empty hoppers in tow. The train was being run as a... (more)

Reading 2102 coasts down the grade through Nesquehoning Tunnel as it approaches Jim Thorpe.

On to Philadelphia.... After pausing for services in the Pennsylvania Capitol of Harrisburg, Abraham Lincoln's funeral train continued its long journey, retracing in reverse, the route tha... (more)

After dropping 19 car loads of passengers at the station in downtown Jim Thorpe, Reading & Northern T-1 #2102 turns the train on the wye utilizing the "new" connection between the Readin... (more)

Now in the teeth of the grade and battling wet rails in the midst of a heavy downpour, T-1 #2102 puts on an impressive display of big steam power as it brings upgrade through the "S" cur... (more)

Former Reading T-1 #2102 leads a 19 car Reading & Northern Ramble past the dual mast signal at "MULLER". This is the first Ramble of 2102's reborn career, and it drew thousands of rail f... (more)

After a dreary morning run to Jim Thorpe, the sun has joined the thousands out chasing former Reading T-1 #2102 pulling its first Ramble of its reborn career, The train is seen here approaching th... (more)

Lehigh Valley F3A 520, F3B 513, RS11 402 low nose and F7A 562 at Lehighton, Pa. in March 1965. Photo by W.J. Brennan, part of my slide collection.

Hurricane Henri makes for a dreary day, but Norfolk & Western Class J #611 makes up for it while charging into Carpenters Crossing on the Strasburg Rail Road.

The somber run from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. On Saturday, April 22, 1865, the special funeral train carrying the remains of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, made... (more)

NS SD40 1580 still awaits its time in the paint shop for its restoration

Two sold PRLX SD70ACU's await shipment to new owners

Built in 1955, the New Haven’s ten class EP5 electrics were delivered in an eye-catching orange, black, and white paint scheme that immediately inspired Lionel and American toy replicas. When th... (more)

As a result of the rain and storms on the day prior, Reading & Northern 425's reflection shines as the sun rises on our country's 245th birthday.

The Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad's freshly repainted MLW M420W leads northbound freight as it comes into Titusville, Pennsylvania and crosses over Oil Creek and the Oil Creek State Park Trail o... (more)

After getting a crew change at the south end of town, CSX loaded coal R129 heads towards the bridge to cross the river and turn south. With the freshly repainted AC4400 on the point, the power is ... (more)

A colorful westbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train chases the light as it crosses the Rockville Bridge lead by a fresh AC44C6M.

Norfolk Southern local H65 is seen switching cars at "The River Yard" before heading back to Allentown. Towering 230 feet above the SD-40E locomotive is the former Bethlehem Steel plant,... (more)

Three PRR Alco RSD-12 8670, 8664 & 8666 were assigned to the pusher role in August 1964. Every freight departing Altoona for Gallitzin and the West was assigned a pusher on the rear to assist th... (more)

One of the quintessential photos of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad is this view of a northbound train rolling under the Starrucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. I only shot this once before t... (more)

A pair of WNYP AC6000's pass under the old PRR signal bridge at the north end of the Eldred siding in Eldred, Pennsylvania just south of the state line. The train has 20 loads of frac sand in tow ... (more)