Side-by-side at The Grove. Stopping her hourly passenger train to pick up a couple of passengers at Groff's Grove, the Strasburg Rail Road's former Canadian National Mogul #89 pulls alongsi... (more)

Babying the beast. As his chartered photo freight sits in the hole at Groff's Picnic Grove, awaiting the passage of the hourly passenger train, a Strasburg Rail Road Engineer takes advantag... (more)

Ready the Sun - cue the clouds! Can we get a plume? And... action! Sometimes puzzle pieces come together!

N&W 611 gets back on the move out of Cherry Hill.

Norfolk & Western Double Header Pan Shot

Norfolk & Western's 4-8-0 No. 382 double heads with Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 at the Strasburg Rail Road's "N&W Re-union of Steam" event wit... (more)

Word's out!

Railfans gather at nearly every grade crossing at the Strasburg Rail Road to catch a glimpse of N&W No. 611, captured here charging across Cherry Hill Road.

N&W No. 475 M Class valve gear in motion - a Railroad: Norfolk & Western
Locomotive: Steam 4-8-0
Location: Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: NW 475
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: October 06, 2019

N&W No. 611 J Class valve gear in motion - a Railroad: Norfolk & Western
Locomotive: Steam 4-8-4
Location: Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: NW 611
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: October 06, 2019

N&W No. 611 captured in a heavy downpour while climbing the grade at Cherry Crest Farm, at the Strasburg Rail Road.

Visiting locomotive, N&W No. 611, pulls Strasburg's last train of the day up the steep grade at Cherry Crest Farm and on towards the depot, before calling it a night.

The "Queen of Steam", N&W No. 611 arrives at Blacksburg... I mean, Groff's Grove, in Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania. The "modern" streamline J-Class locomotive may look a little ou... (more)

N&W No. 475 takes the siding with a small mixed train giving way to a hot shot freight led by N&W No. 611. Seem unlikely? Perhaps, but no more so than having N&W No. 611 show up in Pennsylvania,... (more)

A different angle. Inspired by seeing Mitch Goldman's beautiful pan today, I wanted to post mine of basically the same moment, with a different lens and angle. Mine is 1/25. The zoom kind of fo... (more)

"I'll get by with a little help from my friends"
- a double header pan shot captured at 1/15th!

Norfolk & Western's 4-8-0 No. 382 double heads with Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. ... (more)

An unlikely combination....just because we could. Although there were some M-Class survivors still serving the Norfolk & Western when the J-Class locomotives were operating, I'm not aware o... (more)