The Shenandoah Valley Limited, powered by J 611 is making a run for North Mountain, after backing out of Victoria Station onto the main line. An almost blemish-free operating season for VMT’s St... (more)

Reading 2102 emerges from a cloud of steam as it departs Jim Thorpe on a dreary October afternoon.

SP 4449 is parked for display at Seattle's King St. Station after arriving with the American Freedom Train. The train would be opened for visitation before the train would continue south to Portla... (more)

An early morning in Port Clinton on October 14, 2023 calls for steam with T1 #2102. Here, engineman Ryan Bausher throws the shop lead switch as #2102 awaits to depart for Reading, PA and another d... (more)

With additional passengers onboard Reading & Northern T1 4-8-4 #2102 marches out of town on October 14, 2023 as its heads for Jim Thorpe, PA in the heart of the Pocono Mountains.

"Thunder in the Poconos": Reading & Northern #2102 thunders south towards Reading, PA outside of Jim Thorpe as she climbs the grade with the R&N Fall Foliage Special on October 14, 2023.... (more)

Reading & Northern #2102 blasts past Nesquehoning Jct on October 14, 2023 as she works hard in the rain, wide open, reversing her train for the afternoon run south to Reading, PA for an R&N annual... (more)

Reading & Northern #2102, on a rainy October 14, 2023, races north to Jim Thorpe outside of New Ringgold, PA on one of the annual R&N sponsored Fall Foliage Specials.

Heavy rain falls as the sky erupts with the continuous thunder of Reading & Northern T1 #2102 making time south towards Reading, PA on October 14, 2023. Here the '02, as it's affectionately called... (more)

SP train number 2, the Sunset Limited, hustles at 40 MPH near Glendale California in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Santa Fe 3751 from the fireman side. I saw the 3751 for the first time on November 26, 1976 when it was still on display in San Bernardino. After it was restored by the San Bernardino Railway His... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 from the engineer side. I saw the 3751 for the first time on November 26, 1976 when it was still on display in San Bernardino. After it was restored by the San Bernardino Railway Hi... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

SP train 70, The Coaster, is on the move near Glendale California at 40 MPH, with 13 cars, in 1940. Otto's trusty 1935 Ford V-8 sedan is visible at left. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collectio... (more)

"Station Stop! - Tamaqua, Mahanoy City, Shamokin and all points north!" Reading & Northern #2102 stops at Port Clinton on the morning of October 14, 2023 as she boards additional passeng... (more)