"Riding the Head End Through Town"

After a long day of excursions the crew eases their train through a parking lot adjacent to Steamtown with the conductor riding the head en... (more)

"Jessup Excursion"

Along with the regularly scheduled Scranton Limited Steamtown was hosting an excursion that ran from Jessup, PA to Scranton and return. The train is... (more)

After being marooned for a few days in Slateford Jct after a broken rail was discovered, Delaware-Lackawanna PT-97 screams up the hill with a quintuple of Alcos with their Lehigh Valley unit leadi... (more)

"ASLRRA Excursion"

After a long day on the Pocono Mainline, the ASLRRA excursion arrives back in Scranton as the sun begins to set giving perfect light to this classic scene at S... (more)

Derailment put three Alcos on the ground.

Welcome to Springdale!

A D&H train crosses the Lehigh River after departing Allentown yard for Oak Island, NJ. The trailing unit is an ex-Conrail U33B.

In pre-G&W days, the homebound leg of LR&W's Little Rock turn climbs out of the Arkansas River valley behind a C420/geep combo.

Retired and headed for scrapping, this unit began life as a Piedmont and Northern engine, went to SCL and ended up on the relatively large L&N fleet of C420s.

The 1987 Arkansas & Missouri photographers special included a stop at the remote South Mountain viaduct. Here is the Fort Smith Turn on the viaduct.

Arkansas and Missouri's original owners, the Hannolds, were very receptive to rail photography - so much so that they sponsored several invitation-only photographer specials. My friend Rich Jahn w... (more)

Retired L&N units - mostly C420s - wait on the former Rock Island 2nd main that served as an interchange track between CSX and the Iowa Railroad in the early 1980s.

The Portland Turn arrives as at Tobyhanna, PA to work the Keystone Propane plant on a bitter cold late fall morning.