It's late April, the sun is getting higher in the sky, and K4s #3858 has a commuter train in tow, making a mid-day outbound stop at Asbury Park.

2-8-0 #8301 makes a spin on the Columbus turntable. PRR Class H10.

Another scene for the modelers in the audience, as PRR Class L1s #1685 waits with a cut of cars, the Renovo shop buildings in the distance. The spotlight-equipped '51 Plymouth might have been a c... (more)

Here's another view of I1sa #1292 waiting to make a move in the yard at Renovo, eyeballing the photographer in the process.

His tender full of coal, the Fireman patiently waits as his engine is topped off with sand. Soon it'll back down to a train, tie on, test air, and be on the road. PRR Class M1a

Southern Railway 1452 stands ready at the Asheville Roundhouse.

Time for a little sandhouse gossip before getting out on the road with a train. PRR Class M1a

Southern Railway 1380 one of the only streamlined 4-6-2's on the Southern pauses at Atlanta Yard

Numerically straight K4 #5432 still works PRSL trains during the summer season.

Reading Pacifics wait for work at the Atlantic City end of the PRSL system. Summer season trains from Philadelphia kept these modern yet obsolete steam engines in service a bit longer than they o... (more)

Standing on the embankment next to the small yard at Hammonton allows this perspective of Reading G3 Pacifics serving to augment the added trainsets for summer service trains from Philly to Atlant... (more)

Here's a tender-forward view of GS3 #215 which just yarded it's one-car train after a Saturday run. Summer season trains on the PRSL brought out the Pacifics for a last hurrah, it's only six year... (more)

Reading engine #218 is another of the G3 Pacifics still holding down duty on PRSL runs at this date. The PRSL Baldwin AS-16 diesels are invading though, and the Pacific's service lives are nearin... (more)

The high-level platforms at the North Philly stop offer an interesting contrast with the K4 making a scheduled stop on this Saturday run to Wildwood. The photographer has chanced fate to run up f... (more)

In a rare scene from the early days of color photography, Southern Ps-class Pacific 1244 is shown at the roundhouse at Savannah, Georgia in 1938. The 1910 Baldwin is all spiffed up in green, silve... (more)