"The Best Camera is the One That's With You"

In a spectacular moment of stupid, I had left my spare camera batteries in my car before the night shoot, thinking my current battery was... (more)

"Big Boy" #X4012 sitting at Steamtown, PA. with the early morning sun at Railfest.

Everything in this shot is Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the locomotive paint, the rails, the concrete tower, the land. THIS is historic railroad preservation and it warms the cockles of the hea... (more)

Rebuilt Baldwin 0-6-0 sets up for Railfest.

Spotted on the ready track, a Reading T-1 receives some final attention from a hostler before being coupled to an outbound train. This photo was shot after a very successful night photo shoot at ... (more)

A rainy summer evening in Scranton finds a hostler spotting his charge on the turntable for a spin. The humid air and spotty rain make for a moody, but (very) wet ambiance. This photo was part o... (more)

A rainy summer evening in Scranton finds a hostler spotting his charge on the turntable for a spin. The humid air and spotty rain make for a moody, but (very) wet ambiance. This photo was part o... (more)

Sand Tower Switching

On a dreary night with rain starting to fall in the late 1930s, a Baldwin Locomotive Works demonstrator 0-6-0 waits on a switch to be thrown before moving a cut ... (more)

The End Has Come

It's late summer of 1947, and the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western has completed its order of 24 EMD F3(A) and 12 F3(B). The end of steam on the Route of Phoebe Sno... (more)

Olive green and aluminum... Just as Samuel Vauclain intended. Baldwin Locomotive Works shop switcher #26 is seen in front of the sand tower within the massive Scranton shops of the Delaware Lack... (more)

On a cool rainy September evening, in the former Delaware Lackawanna & Western, Scranton Yard, we find the BLW 26 posing next to the sand tower as SC #426 waits in the background. This shot was p... (more)

Mattes Street Nights- In what could very easily pass for a DL&W publicity photo, an A-B-A set of EMD F3's poses alongside the Mattes Street interlocking tower in downtown Scranton. This pho... (more)

Mattes Street Nights- In what could very easily pass for a DL&W publicity photo, an A-B-A set of EMD F3's poses alongside the Mattes Street interlocking tower in downtown Scranton. This ph... (more)

The Beginning of the End- It's 1935 in the Scranton yards of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western, and an Electro-Motive Corporation intruder has poked its nose into the former all-steam stron... (more)