WW2 reenactors prepare SRC #89 for an evening out on the line hauling the Red Ball Express.

Engineer Richie Maggs monitors the movements of the 1:30 pm train through the turnout from his perch on Canadian National #89. Meanwhile, Great Western #90 has a full head of steam and preps for t... (more)

Engineer Russ Shurtleff takes a tug at the throttle as his fireman Spencer Glass arrives for another day of work on the high iron aboard the Road to Paradise.

Norfolk Southern #8044 arrives in Bluefield, WV on January 28, 2021 with its manifest freight train. It's all downhill from here for #8044 as it continues west as shown by the grade profile in the... (more)

SRC #90 splits the trees in the SRC famed Groundhog Cut as she hustles back to East Strasburg with the 11:00 am train.

Blacksburg, Virginia 1952: the hostler preps M Class locomotive for a day on the high iron. Well maybe, not 1952, but 2017 instead. I find it continually fascinating that we can still experience s... (more)

While NS 811 completes a crew change in Bluefield, NS #8021 coasts with its own empty hopper train across Cooper's Trestle near Bramwell, WV on March 21, 2021. Constructed as part of a massive rea... (more)

NS 55W dives head first into an S curve in Oakvale, WV on January 8, 2021. Here the former Norfolk & Western mainline snakes its way east and west, to and from, Bluefield, WV. With the snow gettin... (more)

Wabash heritage unit #1070 races west near CP Singer on Norfolk Southern's Christiansburg District on March 22, 2021. On the adjacent track an eastbound double stack train heads towards Roanoke, V... (more)

Late afternoon brings us to the former Lehigh Valley mainline as Reading & Northern Pacific #425 races towards Penobscot Yard near Mountain Top, PA on July 9, 2022 outside of CP Bergers. In full s... (more)

Classic switch lamps dot the yard at the Reading & Northern's Outer Station in Reading, Pennsylvania. Add a steam locomotive into the mix, such as former Gulf Mobile & Ohio pacific #425 in some ni... (more)

Little snow remains from Winter Storm Stella, as SRC #90 blasts her way out Leaman Place Junction on a 70 degree Saturday afternoon.

Former Great Western decapod #90 blasts out of Groff's Grove from a standstill during a two train operation day on the Road to Paradise.

Freshly overhauled from another 1472 inspection, Canadian National Mogul #89, perhaps the most handsome of all locomotives at the Strasburg Rail Road, rounds Long Curve outside of Paradise, PA wit... (more)

"Dawn" Norfolk & Western #611 - October 5, 2019