The Seasons Changed...

...but the Everett Railroad's little 2-6-0 hasn't. With one of the earliest blankets of snow in recent memory on the ground and a light snow shower continuing ... (more)

It Ain't Easy...

...being the most photographed steam railroader in Pennsylvania. Fireman Stephen Lane minds his footing after putting down the fire hose used to fill #11's tender be... (more)

Everett's Mogul-type No. 11 charges out of the woods with the 10:00 a.m. Santa Claus Special. No. 11 was built on speculation by Alco-Cooke in Paterson, New Jersey in 1920 and sat on the shop flo... (more)

Out of the Fog

Central PA's favorite (and currently only) operating steam locomotive, Everett Railroad #11, breaks of of the mists on a brisk morning hauling the first of this year's... (more)

Freight cars are staged for inspection on tracks 1 and 2 before being filtered into the railcar repair area of Curry Rail Service's Hollidaysburg Shop. Built for the PRR in 1954 as their Samuel Re... (more)

Various freight cars undergoing repair inside Curry Rail Service's Hollidaysburg Shop. Built for the PRR in 1954 as their Samuel Rea Shop, the building is part of the DeGol Industrial Complex. Cur... (more)

Everett #11 leads the first of two mid-afternoon (whadda-ya-gonna-do?) excursions on a beautiful sunny day in April. The next train departed two hours later - at 2 PM. I was happy to hear it was... (more)

Everett Railroad: The Full Steam Roster:

Everett Railroad's restored 2-6-0 #11 runs past the railroad's next restoration project; 2-8-0 #38, former Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain. This... (more)

Located in the former Sam Rea/Hollidaysburg Car Shops, Curry Rail Services now occupies the west end of the shop complex. With railcar and locomotive repair, metal fabrication, railcar manufacturi... (more)

It was a beautiful day, and the Everett Railroad was running one of its scheduled Ice Cream Specials into Roaring Spring. Here, fireman Stephen Lane stokes the fire ahead of a grade to Cunningham ... (more)

Everett Railroad's #11 storms out of Hollidaysburg while passing the former PRR Sam Rae Car Shops, now home to Curry Rail Services. Curry's first new freight car guards the entrance to the facilit... (more)

Pre-trip activities

The crew prepares No. 11 for the day's festivities, first by dumping the ash, then taking on a load of coal followed by some attention to the running gear. One final ... (more)

A pair of GP 40-2s (NS 3032 & NS 3024) start towards the Curry Rail Services facility in Hollidaysburg on the Cove Secondary.

Norfolk Southern's tri-weekly local that serves the Cove Secondary and Hollidaysburg prepares to drop three cars for Curry Rail Services and pick up 27 from their facility. The former Pennsylvania... (more)

Curry Rail Services and Tractive Power Corp. present the first Tier 4 Industrial Switcher. The unit, equipped with a Caterpillar C9.3 (400HP) engine, is Tier 4 compliant and rides on a standard EM... (more)