PPCX 800724, a Central Pacific Railroad private car named 'Promontory Point', backs into Denver's Union Station on the rear of the California Zephyr #5 train. The car was built in 1953 for the Pu... (more)

PPCX 800724, a Central Pacific Railroad private car named 'Promontory Point' was built in 1953 for Pullman and worked for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. Here we see it being pulled behi... (more)

The private car PPCX 800724 Promontory Point in Central Pacific Railroad paint backs first into Denver's Union Station on the back of the California Zephyr.

The Leviathan's tender is lettered "Penna. R.R.," as it pulls a train on the "Harrisburg, Lincoln, & Lancaster R.R." during the Civil War weekend at Stone Gables Estates. Publ... (more)

Celebrating the 150th Golden Spike anniversary with a big show for 18'000 visitors!

Celebrating the 150th Golden Spike anniversary with Central Pacific 4-4-0 "Jupiter" and Union Pacific 4-4-0 "Rogers" steam locomotives face to face.

Celebrating the 150th Golden Spike anniversary with a big show for 18'000 visitors!

Sesquicentennial Morning- After turning on the wye, the O'Connor Engineering replica of Central Pacific's most famous locomotive gallops away to the spotlight while her Union Pacific counte... (more)

Central Pacific Jupiter stretches is legs as it leaves the engine house and heads for display at the site of the driving of the Golden Spike.

It's the biggest day these reproduction locomotives have ever seen -- the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike. Before moving out to entertain thousands of people, CPRR Jupiter and... (more)

The replica of the Lincoln Funeral Train runs on the former Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way on the property of Stone Gables Estate 154 years to the day after the original funeral train ran over... (more)

The recreated Lincoln Funeral Train rolls along the same right-of-way as the original took exactly 154 years prior. The right-of-way is now part of the new Harrisburg, Lincoln & Lancaster Railroad... (more)

To commemorate the 154th anniversary of the Lincoln funeral train, a replica consist was run on a 5/8-mile long segment of the pre-1900 PRR mainline recently rebuilt by Stone Gables Estate.

The pre-1900 Pennsylvania Railroad mainline west of Elizabethtown was recently rebuilt by Stone Gables Estate. On April 22 and 23, to commemorate the 154th anniversary of the Lincoln funeral trai... (more)

One of the perks of truck driving has found me in interesting places with interesting loads. One of the most interesting is the Railroad Ties and Crossing Panels I had to deliver to the Golden Spi... (more)