The Big J heads west. With just seconds of daylight left, Norfolk & Western J-Class Northern #611 charges west through the Fairview section of Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, headed for... (more)

Frosty, pre-dawn departure. The Norfolk & Western Railway's colorful J-Class Northern #611 waits with her passenger train in the yard at East Strasburg, PA, as her crew performs brake tests... (more)

Fifties classics cross paths. In what could be a scene out of the mid-1950s on one of the Norfolk & Western's Ohio routes, the J-Class Northern #611 charges through a rural crossing as the ... (more)

Executing a "hard start". On most railroad photo shoots, run-bys are initiated out of sight of the photo line from around a curve or behind a stand of trees. This serves two purp... (more)

The "Spirit of Roanoke" rides again. Norfolk & Western J-Class #611, "The Spirit of Roanoke" hauls a short passenger special westbound on Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail R... (more)

Rise and shine 611. Just moments after sunrise, Norfolk & Western J-Class Northern #611 makes a spirited charge across the Amish Farmland along Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, hauling a... (more)

Sunset crossing. The setting sun begins setting fire to Norfolk & Western's big J-Class #611 as she takes her passenger train westbound, past a motorist waiting at the crossing at Verdant V... (more)

By the dawn's early light. Just moments after sunrise, Norfolk & Western 611, the sole survivor of the famous J-Class, makes a westbound run through the Fairview section of the Strasburg Ra... (more)

Foreign Power. Norfolk & Western M-Class 12-Wheeler #475 sits in the hole next to the Pennsy interlocking tower at Lemoyne Junction, PA, awaiting clearance to proceed with her freight.

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"Lantern Girl" heads off to work. Carrying a large cache of kerosene-burning railroad lanterns, our PRR "Lantern Girl" leaves the J-Tower for the nearby yard, to distrib... (more)

The "Lantern Girl". At the conclusion of the November, 2021 Historic Transport Preservation (HTP) photo shoot at Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, we had an opportunity to re-cr... (more)

Yard Limit. The engineer on Norfolk & Western M-Class Locomotive #475 closes his throttle as his short mixed train passes the yard limit on approach to a rural station where they'll pick up... (more)

Notable 90 battling a blizzard in early December 2017, as it moves past the enginehouse to couple up to the first train of the day. No. 90 is scheduled for its 1,472-day inspection in 2022, so pe... (more)

Flanked on both sides by Christmas lights at Strasburg Rail Road’s East Strasburg station complex, Norfolk & Western 4-8-0 #475 takes water at the water tank on December 18, 2021. Wishing a Merr... (more)

Waking up frosty East Strasburg. It's not even 7AM yet and the sleepy folks in Pennsylvania Dutch Country are getting a rather spectacular wake-up call as the last operational Norfolk & Wes... (more)