Reading & Northern's T1 puts on a show as it leads an excursion through the Lehigh Gorge.

N&W 611 thunders eastbound past Via’s Crossing on Buckingham Branch Railroad’s North Mountain Subdivision. Note the lone C&O codeline pole left standing.

AT&SF 4-8-4 3780 emits an impressive smoke plume as it leads second number 3, The California Limited, at 40 MPH south of Bernalillo New Mexico in 1947. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Reading 2102 opens its cylinders cocks as it reverses out of the Jim Thorpe yard on a foggy June morning.

Reading 2102 opens its cylinder cocks in Port Clinton as the sun begins to rise over the mountains early in the morning.

Reading and Northern 2102 steams through Tamaqua with 15 cars on the return trip from Jim Thorpe to Reading.

C&O 4-8-4 Greenbrier 614T with fifty loaded coal hoppers on a run from Huntington, to Hinton WV. It was on steam powered testing for one month in January 1985. 614T has stopped at Charleston, West... (more)

C&O 614T, 4-8-4 Greenbrier, running test for the ACE program, hauling coal on the C&O between Huntington, and Hinton WV at Cabin Creek, West Virginia. January 10, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

Reading 2102 hustles alongside the Susquehanna River at Falls as it approaches its destination of Tunkhannock.

Reading 2102 rolls through Glen Summit on a sunny June morning.

C&O Greenbrier 4-8-4 614T "T" for test. Pulling coal trains for a month in January 1985 seen here at Pratt, West Virginia. November 11, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

Reading 2102 storms through Nesquehoning Junction late in the evening as it nears the end of its all day excursion to Tunkhannock.

The 2102 works southbound through Lehigh Gorge State Park.

The 2102 steams north towards Tunkhannock PA.

Reading 2102 pounds up the grade at Solomons Gap with its passenger train.