With my wife standing under the Amtrak herald for a sense of scale, No. 4932 languishes by the original visitor center building. The locomotive was later moved to Cooperstown Junction, NY, and th... (more)

Emanating a veritable Vesuvian smoke plume and wearing its DL&W-inspired "Pocono Mountain Express" paint scheme, the 2317 performs a runby during the 1986 railfan weekend.

A Conrail "Executive E" trundles into Enola, probably for some maintenance work. No. 4021 was built as PRR 5711 in October 1952, and is now owned by Juniata Terminal.

The PRR 1361's crew and a solitary railfan are scrutinizing an issue hidden behind the massive 27" X 28" cylinders. The locomotive had run to Bellefonte earlier in the day, turned on th... (more)

The PRR Heritage Unit looks a bit out of place rolling through the Amish farmland on the Strasburg's light jointed rail. It's heading back to Leaman Place Junction and the Amtrak mainline after ha... (more)

Notable 90 is pounding upgrade by Carpenters, on its way back to Strasburg. The 1924 Baldwin has 8 cars behind its tender.

How many times did the 4800 roll by old LEMO Tower? There's some hope that groundbreaking on a new roundhouse at the RR Museum of PA will take place next spring, and there's also a chance that th... (more)

Amtrak's Autumn Express passes through the shadow of the old Reading station in Lebanon, where the last regularly scheduled passenger train stopped on June 30, 1963.

Amtrak's Autumn Express prepares to depart Lancaster with a tripleheader of sorts- the Phase III Heritage Unit, the diesel Veterans Unit No. 42, and the electric Veterans Unit No. 642, leading Fir... (more)

Amtrak's 2016 Autumn Express with an unusual combo of two P42s (No. 42 trailing) and an ACS-64 (No. 642) dead-in-tow. The train will turn on the Rockville wye, and when back under the wires in La... (more)

A bit of Pennsylvania Railroad history brings up the rear of Amtrak's Pennsylvanian- the Morristown & Erie RR's parlor-observation car No. 2006. Originally built as PRR No. 7129 "Alexander H... (more)

Everett's Mogul-type No. 11 charges out of the woods with the 10:00 a.m. Santa Claus Special. No. 11 was built on speculation by Alco-Cooke in Paterson, New Jersey in 1920 and sat on the shop flo... (more)

Everett's Mogul-type No. 11 is slowing its 3-car 12:00 noon Santa Claus Special to a stop. No. 11 was built by Alco-Cooke in 1920 on speculation and sat on the shop floor until 1923, when it was ... (more)

The one-of-a-kind 6,000 hp experimental freight electric rests between assignments in the forlorn yard tracks east of Harrisburg's station. Weighing in at 182 1/2 tons and nearly 69 feet long, th... (more)

Doubleheaded GG-1s round the bend at the south end of the Boro, with the lead unit still displaying a PRR solid stripe. Note the newly-installed welded rail along the bucolic Atglen & Susquehanna... (more)