N&W #475 approaches the siding at Groff's Grove as GW #90 awaits the highball for the final westbound leg of her journey.

Acid rain bitten headstones still stand within one of the oldest if not the oldest cemetery in Pennsylvania as Canadian National #89 and Norfolk & Western #475 approach Carpenter's Crossing on a c... (more)

*Steam in the Snow*: Great Western decapod #90, hauling the ex-Philadelphia & Reading President's Business car #90, thunders around Long Curve outside of Paradise, Pennsylvania on the snowy mornin... (more)

Engineer Fred Mattison and Student Fireman/Hostler Gabe Bocchino go over some small items prior to a day of steam railroading with SRC #89.

N&W Class J #611 comes to a stop under the water plug inside the yards of the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC on May 1st, 2021. Built in 1950, #611 is the only remaining Class ... (more)

Shades of yellow, orange, blue and purple surround the N&W J class locomotive as she slowly backs away from the photo line outside of the Verdant View farm beginning another day of turning back th... (more)

D&RGW #473 and #476 hustle by the powerplant at Tacoma on the Silverton Branch on October 16, 2023. Here the train will pause briefly once into the passing siding to clear the main for the daily S... (more)

N&W Class J #611 pulls into Bristol, VA with the Tennessean on the starry night of May 1st, 2021. Meanwhile on the adjacent track the engineer of Southern FP7A #6133 climbs aboard ready to haul hi... (more)

Norfolk Southern ET44AC #3624, at the head-end of a long manifest freight, slips through the sleepy New River community of Eggleston, Virginia on the morning of April 26, 2021.

Dave Lotfi climbs up onto SRC #90 in the golden sunrise of a brisk spring morning. This day calls for an early steam revenue freight train and soon railfans and riders will be arriving early to li... (more)

"A Window in Time": Student Hostler and Fireman Gabe Bocchino is shrouded in steam as he blows down N&W #475. Even for such a simple task, one definitely has to appreciate how many worke... (more)

"Steam Dreams"

We catch Norfolk Southern 9555 again grinding upgrade to Bluefield, WV among spring foliage on the Christiansburg Division on the morning of May 23, 2020 outside of Hardy, WV along Ingleside Road.... (more)

A doubleheaded steam consist passes the timeless farms of Lancaster County Pennsylvania....

CSXT coal train T21122 slides downgrade at Moss Run, VA on May 22, 2021. Leading this train is CSXT #792 an ES44AH, the "H" denoting Heavy. Apparently these units are weighted down with ... (more)