After a weekend of delighting crowds at Los Angeles Union Station for Trainfest 2023 and then delighting a number of photographers on the turntable at Redondo Junction, 3751 begins to make the fin... (more)
Engineer Ryan Bausher opens Reading 2102's throttle while crew member Larry Curvey keeps an eye on the track ahead as the locomotive begins to reverse 16 miles to pick up its train in Reading.
When Eras Collide - As the sun rises upon Downtown LA, the 1927 built ATSF 3751 begins its two mile shove movement along the Los Angeles River from Amtrak's north yard to Union Station for the 202... (more)
Eastbound excursion more or less drifting after the tough pull into Bluefield. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.
Crew members Ryan Bausher and Jim Cook hang the white extra flags on Reading 2102 before its departure from Reading.
It is 18:38 (6:38 pm) and the Los Angeles Union Station Train Festival 2023 has been closed for 38 minutes. And with the sun due to set at 19:07 (7:07 pm), and rumors of Atchison Topeka & Santa F... (more)
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 4-8-4 3751 has just arrived at Los Angeles Union Station to spend the weekend on display at Los Angeles Union Station Train Festival 2023. As usual, this steam ... (more)
Reading 2102 rolls across Marian Avenue as it begins the downhill portion of its excursion into Jim Thorpe.
Reading 2102 charges out of Port Clinton with its 16-car train in tow.
Reading 2102 thunders through Tamaqua on a beautiful September morning with the final Iron Horse Ramble of 2023.
T-1 2102 leaves with the Iron Horse Ramble and the return to Port Clinton and Reading on a beautiful Sunday at 3:45 pm.
SP Daylight, 2nd 99, is seen at the Third & Townsend Street station in San Francisco California on July 26th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
#261 made a trip without diesel assist to the museum in Duluth and is now heading back to Minneapolis. The frigid summer temps were most welcomed.
The fire burns in the belly of the beast. UP 844 (4-8-4) sits in Denver waiting to take the Cheyenne Frontier Days train back to Cheyenne.
SP 4449 and SP&S 700 sit side by side at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR.
