Engineer Richie Maggs awaits the signal from his brakeman for the hitch as #89 is on call late into the night. This photo was shot as part of the Red Ball Express photo charter put on by the Stras... (more)

It's all hands on deck for the hostlers and engine helpers of N&W Class J #611 on the evening of May 1st, 2021. This locomotive even after a long day of running across the N&W system will need to ... (more)

"Thunder in the Poconos": With her throttle to the roof, Reading T1 #2102 rumbles through Nesquehoning, PA in the heart of the Pocono Mountains on 9/3/22 leading her Iron Horse Ramble so... (more)

"The Beast of the East": Western Maryland, ex-Chesapeake & Ohio, 2-6-6-2 Mallet #1309 thunders up Helmstetter's Curve on November 6, 2022 as part of a Trains Magazine photo charter. What... (more)

Through a field of flowers, SRC #89 barks her way over the Pumpkinville Turnpike with supplies and men for the war effort. A charter by Lerro Productions and the Strasburg Rail Road.

Floating in a cloud of steam, Hostler Earl Knoob preps the M Class air compressor evoking images of yesteryear on the Norfolk and Western.

SRC #89, serving as a U.S. Transportation Corps locomotive, glimmers as she heads home with important supplies and men for the war effort on the Homefront.

SRC #90 lumbers ahead in the sunset sun on a gorgeous summer evening.

The master and the apprentice: Engineer Chris Bost, a veteran of the Reading & Northern steam team for over 30 years, speaks with Tim Haefner about the ins and outs of former GM&O #425. Passing on... (more)

"An Evening Stroll in Paradise": It's about 7:30 pm and former Great Western #90 is illuminated by the golden sunset of a Lancaster County evening as she heads home turning another page ... (more)

A new morning brings another day of 21st century steam railroading.

NS Wabash heritage unit #1070 flies past the coal prep plant in Keystone, WV on March 7, 2021 hauling train 393. This structure according to my sources, as part of the coal preparation process, co... (more)

"Rock Cut": CNJ #113's exhaust echoed off the rock walls just south of Minersville, Pennsylvania on November 30, 2019 as she headed home hauling Reading & Northern's Santa Special.

"Appalachian Railroading": To some, including myself, Shawsville, Virginia exemplifies some of the best features of Appalachian railroading: big mountain scenery and big tonnage trains. ... (more)

Anthony DeBellis pulls the blowdown valve on SRC #90 in the early morning hours of another day on the Road to Paradise. The blowdown valve allows the crew to remove impurities from the boiler that... (more)