Southern #630, pulling the weekend's Missionary Ridge locals, rolls across the Chickamauga creek outside of Grand Junction station. In 1867, this creek suffered a massive flood rising over, in my ... (more)

Southern #630, a rather large consolidation type, stomps out of East Chattanooga pulling happy passengers on the Missionary Ridge local.

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)

SRC #90 makes up time as she speeds toward Esbenshade Crossing in the late afternoon light of a fall day.

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)

Two locomotives from a bygone era, are getting hot inside the enginehouse of the Strasburg Rail Road. Here, Canadian National #89's safety lifts enveloping Great Western decapod #90 in steam signa... (more)

Engineer Ted Krumreich has SRC #90 hooked up as the sun glints just over the horizon signalling the end to what was another successful day of steam railroading on the Strasburg Rail Road.

N&W #475's hooter echos against the buildings lining the Amtrak and former PRR main near Paradise, PA on October 23, 2017. This location is called Leaman Place junction (pronounced "LEMON&quo... (more)

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

If one could transport back to the time of steam on the Canadian Prairies perhaps it was in late October outside of Strasburg, Pennsylvania with SRC #89. Here, racing across the "Flats" ... (more)

With unseasonably warm Fall temperatures, the flowers outside of Groff's Grove are still making their mind up about whether to batten down for Winter or not, as Canadian National #89, Great Wester... (more)

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)

Fireman Dave Domitrovich monitors the ROW on the left hand seat of CN #89 as Fireman Erich Armpriester leans out of the gangway on N&W #475. Both are highballing toward Carpenter's Crossing on Oc... (more)

Steam, smoke and the sound of a replica N&W hooter pierce the silence around Beiler's Crossing on a cool, brisk October morning as N&W #475 displays why N&W steam is so special to the hearts of ma... (more)

Even with below average colors in the trees this fall due to abnormally warm temperatures, there are still glimpses of Fall on the Strasburg Rail Road.