Pennsylvania caboose 477859 sits in the park next to the Gallitzin Tunnels. The derailment at Horseshoe Curve has been cleared, and plenty of trains were going through the tunnels. The park on t... (more)

In what could pass for the PRR's Broadway Limited making a station stop circa 1949, except for E-Town's 2009-built high-level platforms in view. Today's Amtrak's Pennsylvanian had three PRR cars ... (more)

Pennsy K4s No. 1361 being watered in downtown Bellefonte on a cold October Saturday in 1987.

An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.

Primed and Ready

While there hasn't a huge amount of progress on the engine or boiler (background) at this time, attention is being had to a large piece of the puzzle.

PRR... (more)

Isn't This Putting the Cart Before the Horse?

Some might say so. But while the museum organizes the remaining heavy work to the engine proper, the long-overdue finishing touches on P... (more)

A 99.8 second exposure at "0419 in the AM" behind the Pennsylvania position lights mounted on Jamestown Road in Portage, PA. A couple weeks later, on June 10th, these signals were removed from ser... (more)

A Tim Mader original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

Steam Into History is a tourist railroad located just north of the Maryland/Pennsylvania border in the town of New Freedom, Pennsylvania. While the railroad's name refers to their 4-4-0 steam loco... (more)

Lightning illuminates the sky reminding the photographer of the Netflix series "Stranger Things." Approaching the PRR position light signal bridge at Summerhill, PA from the east is a we... (more)

Classic former Pennsylvania Railroad P70 coaches are parked in front of the former Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines station at Tuckahoe. Many of these former PRR coaches at one time ran on thes... (more)

Pennsy K4s No. 1361 on the wye at Bellefonte, with a short consist of three cars. Last I heard (February, 2019) they are planning to manufacture a new boiler.

Pennsylvania Railroad electric power in the form of E44 4465 and GG1 4935 face off in Rolling Stock Hall at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

The E44 class unit in the back area of Enola Yard. The top of the negative was damaged at some point, which is why the pantograph shoe was clipped from the scan. An original medium format negati... (more)

An original medium format negative from my collection; the location and photographer were not specified.