On the last runby shot of this roll of film, the photographer is able to capture NKP 759, sister engine of NKP 765 once more in this 1970 chase on the east slope. John still gets out and has enjo... (more)

The 1970 High Iron special with NKP 759 blasts by with it's train a few miles out of Mifflin, at the Hawstone crossovers. Welded rail had yet to come to the old Middle Division.

Hawstone is a few miles west of Mifflin, PA., in the heart of the old Middle Division. Here NKP 759 is framed by an iron gateway under classic PRR signals in this 1970 view. Today it is known as... (more)

Nickel Plate #759 shows off her train of PC coaches and High Iron equipment as she crosses the Susquehanna back in 1970.

NKP 759 makes it's first runby on this roll of film. We are up on the slope headed back around Horseshoe Curve to Altoona and eventually Harrisburg. Note the welded rail just beginning to be ins... (more)

With it's RS5T blaring, Arizona Eastern Railway 6070 blasts by the Pleasant Prairie Power Plant and over a couple of crossings as it works it's way back south towards Chicago Union Station.

Action at CNJ's JU interlocking includes the NKP 759 blasting by with a High Iron Special. There appears to be a trainload of fans in commuter coaches and admirers of the train on the road over a... (more)

A High Iron fall colors special with the NKP 759 in trailing position traverses Helmstetter's.

Subbing for an ailing NKP 759, N&W 1733 pitches in to rescue a High Iron special and run the rest of the way into Roanoke.

"Houston, we have a problem..." The crew of the High Iron team eyeball a development with the left front cylinder that will cripple it for the remainder of the trip. By this time, N&W SD45 #171... (more)

A Hagerstown-Roanoke High Iron special crosses from Maryland into West Virginia, above hallowed ground visible through winter foliage near some of the bloodiest Civil War battle sites. General Le... (more)

The train was headed back eastward into the Portage tunnel after running the balloon track. These trips originated in Harrisburg and turned here.

Running on Penn Central, the flat-black High Iron Special gets some mid-day admiration from the crowd as seen from Jackson St. This special ran the weekend of Sept. 12/13, Harrisburg-Horseshoe Cu... (more)

A High Iron special leaves a carbon footprint as it exits the tunnel. She'll turn on the balloon track and head through the Portage tunnel eastward back to Harrisburg.

The High Iron special passes a rustic Virginia barn on this H-line trip.