The stack talk was deafening, as Reading T-1 No. 2102 accelerated a string of hoppers down the Schuylkill Valley. The headlight was off, prototypically, per the Reading experts on hand that day, ... (more)

We're standing on the old PRR grade above Port Clinton for a view of the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society's GP30/C630-powered railfan weekend special returning from Tamaqua. The loc... (more)

The Blue Mountain and Reading's CF7s have coupled up to a steam special, after the train had been hauled into town by 4-8-4 No. 2102. The original purple scheme has faded to a kind of periwinkle ... (more)

Pennsy K4s No. 1361 has a respectable 8 cars in tow, crossing over at ROSE with a Bellefonte-Altoona excursion. The limit for a K4s up the mountain was 6 cars; hopefully we will get to see No. 13... (more)

Pennsy Atlantic No. 7002 performing a runby with period cars from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, during the commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the PRR train, "The Broadway Limited... (more)

Reading Lines GP30 No. 5513 and T-1 No. 2102 posing at the old South Hamburg station area on the Blue Mountain and Reading's ex-PRR Schuylkill Division

The N&W A and J are racing past the photo line, transporting hundreds of NRHS conventioneers back to the glory days of steam. One wonders if this scene will ever be repeated...

The Strasburg crew is doing some early-morning switching, using their ex-PRR 1948-built GE 44-tonner. Originally numbered as PRR 9331, the Strasburg dropped the "9" and "1," c... (more)

Reading T-1 No. 2102, working upgrade along the Little Schuylkill Branch in 1991. Thirty of these locomotives (2100-2129) were produced by the Reading Shops between 1945 and 1947, heavily rebuilt... (more)

Alco Century 630 No. 5308 posed with EMD GP30 No. 5513 at the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern / Reading Company Technical & Historical Society 1991 railfan weekend night photo session- down by ... (more)

The captured Krupp-built German railway gun, "Leopold," at the old US Army Ordnance Museum near Aberdeen, MD. The barrel is 283 mm (11.1") in diameter X 71 feet long, with a range of 40 miles. A... (more)

In its last year of operation, Pennsy D16sb No. 1223 runs around its mixed freight, in a view from J-Tower. Photo taken by my wife; conductor was the late H. Fox, guarding the now-gone pedestrian... (more)

The recently restored UP Big Boy 4012, at Steamtown on National Train Day 2021

N&W Class A No. 1218 on the wye at Lynchburg on the first of its two trips out of Roanoke that day. Later in the afternoon, it would head west to Walton. The tool car is ex-CN, and had not yet b... (more)

We're Dutch-dooring it on the "Broadway" as it descends the grade around Horseshoe Curve on a rainy Sunday morning in October of 1977. Pennsy K4s No. 1361 (Juniata, 1918) is in view, in... (more)