Sitting outside and against the backdrop of the former Lackawanna Railroad mechanical backshop Baldwin Locomotive Works #26 simmers away awaiting yet another run on the high iron.
"Stop (Wo)Men At Work": Engineer Jan MacDonald was at the helm of Baldwin Locomotive Works #26 on June 29, 2019. Jan, a 26 year volunteer veteran of the Steamtown National Historic Site,... (more)
"Time Machine": Baldwin Locomotive Works #26 backs out from her stall inside the former Lackawanna Railroad roundhouse at the Steamtown National Historic Site. In merely seconds with a s... (more)
Engineer Jan MacDonald keeps on eye on the front of the locomotive as she performs a brake test prior to pulling Baldwin Locomotive Works #26 out of the roundhouse.
Steam from the air pump billows up from underneath the smokebox of BLW #26 as she builds pressure for another day of railroading at Steamtown National Historic Site.
Jan MacDonald eyes, with the use of a flashlight, the various moving parts and lubrication points on BLW #26 prior to bringing it out onto the turntable for a new day of steam railroading at the S... (more)
NKP GP9 #514 idles inside the former Lackawanna Railroad yard preparing for a trip to the Delaware Water Gap on the former Lackawanna Railroad mainline.
Seen from the viewing platform running along the inner wall of the roundhouse, Baldwin Locomotive Works #26 simmers prior to a day of hauling yard shuttle trains at Steamtown National Historic Sit... (more)
In the early 1990’s, Steamtown ran a series of excursions on the former DL&W main from Scranton to Kingsley, Pennsylvania. Here one of those trains eases back into Scranton on the grade to Clark... (more)
Stablemates: BLW #26 and CN #3254
Andrew Giardina greases the first driver's crankpins with the alemite gun prior to another day on the high iron with BLW #26.
DL power rests at Bridge 60.
DL power is swapped at Bridge 60. Quite a lashup even the RS3!
Squint a little it might be 1952 instead of 2002. On a hot July morning, two faces from the past race briefly side by side at Bradley Yard adjacent to the Scranton University.