Santa Fe 3751 from the engineer side. I saw the 3751 for the first time on November 26, 1976 when it was still on display in San Bernardino. After it was restored by the San Bernardino Railway Hi... (more)

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)

SP train 70, The Coaster, is on the move near Glendale California at 40 MPH, with 13 cars, in 1940. Otto's trusty 1935 Ford V-8 sedan is visible at left. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collectio... (more)

"Station Stop! - Tamaqua, Mahanoy City, Shamokin and all points north!" Reading & Northern #2102 stops at Port Clinton on the morning of October 14, 2023 as she boards additional passeng... (more)

Thundering north past former Reading Railroad telegraph poles, Reading & Northern T1 #2102 thunders through Barnesville, PA as engineman Shane Frederickson mans the left hand seat on October 14, 2... (more)

My father had a LP record called "Valley of the Steam Locomotives", which featured different NdeM steam locomotives. Sometimes when mom and my sisters were out of the house for a while, my dad wou... (more)

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)

SP 4449 has arrived in Wenatchee, WA with the American Freedom Train in early November 1975. The engine has been placed at the locomotive facilities for fuel/water before continuing west over Stev... (more)

Fireman Shane Frederickson hangs the white extra flags on Reading 2102 shortly before it departs Reading Outer Station.

Engineer Shane Frederickson checks Reading 2102's feedwater heater system shortly before the locomotive departs Port Clinton.

Fireman Ryan Bausher shovels coal into Reading 2102's large Wootten Firebox as the engine slowly builds up pressure for the next day's Iron Horse Ramble Doubleheader.

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 whistles as it meets an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train at Casa Blanca, four miles west of the Riverside Amtrak/Metrolink station. The steam engine i... (more)

Engineer Shane Frederickson gives one last look over Reading 2102 shortly before it departs the Reading & Northern Steam Shop for Reading Outer Station.

Reading 2102 passes Millers Field as it rolls down the grade on a gorgeous October afternoon.

Norfolk & Western 611 passes the Staunton Station as it begins the return trip back to Goshen.