Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. 0-4-0T No. 51

A view from the rear of this unique 0-4-0T "Lokie" on display at the Number 9 Coal Mine. No. 51 was built for the Lehigh Coal & Navig... (more)

Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. 0-4-0T No. 51

This unique 0-4-0T "Lokie" is a 4 wheeled 42" gauge tank switcher which was built for the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. at Lansfor... (more)

Canadian National 2-6-0 No. 89, former Grand Trunk Railway No. 1009, nee CN No. 911, is captured here in her last few years, working a lonely prairie branch. Perhaps she'll be spared from the scr... (more)

Strasburg Rail Road's 2-6-0 No. 89 sits in the hole with a revenue freight as its 2-10-0 No. 90 prepares for its return trip to Ronks, PA with a passenger excursion. The commodity loaded within t... (more)

An early morning freight led by 2-6-0 No. 89 plies through the Amish farmlands of Lancaster en route to Strasburg, PA.

"The Setup"

In a scene "Out of the Past", Great Western No. 90 awakes from "The Big Sleep" at the Strasburg Rail Road. Some photographers approach night photography with a "Shadow of a D... (more)

Ready the Sun - cue the clouds! Can we get a plume? And... action! Sometimes puzzle pieces come together!

Downpour!

N&W No. 475 leads an excursion through the bucolic Amish countryside in Lancaster County, Pa, in the midst of a heavy downpour. Alas - this is the Strasburg Rail Road; ... (more)

While on loan to the Pennsylvania Railroad for testing, Norfolk & Western's 4-8-4 No. 611 makes a visit to Strasburg, cutting away from the PRR main by the freight house at Leaman Place. Yeah... ... (more)

N&W No. 611 emerges from a tunnel of tress at Carpenters, in Paradise, PA, along the Strasburg Rail Road.

Nothing like a cool refreshing 611 Big Gulp™ after a 9 mile round trip excursion to Paradise and back!

It's about time!

N&W No. 611 leads the 5 PM excursion past the railroad's new clock tower and on towards the station. Lancaster jeweler Brent L. Miller Railroad: Norfolk & Western
Locomotive: Steam 4-8-4
Location: Ronks, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: NW 611
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July 10, 2021

A late evening eastbound Amtrak Regional Express races past the Cornwells Heights station at sunset, bound for New York and points east.

Amtrak's E-60, No. 603, on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. I never saw an E-60 brand new (though, I did see No. Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: E-60
Location: Strasburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 603
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July 18, 2021

Lehigh Valley "Bobber" caboose - built around 1900 and retired from road service in 1937.

Per the Museum's plaque: "The early history of this car remains clouded in uncertainty. ... (more)