While it was bitter cold at minus 10 degrees, the sun was brilliant and the smoke plume magnificent. It was also the day I gained control of the camera and the pictures of that day led to me becom... (more)

No. 26 is a lot smaller than a Big Boy but that doesn't mean the little filly cannot put on a show. When the temp is in the teens Fahrenheit, this is what happens.

N&W M Class 4-8-0 "Mollie" No. 382 (Nee 475) and engineer Dave Domitrovich are showing younger sister N&W J Class 4-8-4 No. 611 how it's done!

Norfolk & Western J Class 4-8-4 No. 611 is an extraordinarily efficient steam locomotive. However, in comparison with its successor the diesel-electric, it is pretty awful in converting heat into ... (more)

How is it I am so privileged to see this magnificent machine?

The Norfolk & Western J class 4-8-4 No. 611 some will say is the finest passenger steam locomotive of all time. You are looking at ... (more)

This is a photo that speaks of speed. The designers under the watchful eye of Clarence E. Pond, Norfolk & Western Railway General Manager, Motive Power and Equipment, designed one of the finest p... (more)

Colorful blackness.

N&W No. 611 is seen in Strasburg bathed in glorious sunset color. Fortunately for us, because of the people we see here, No. 611 is not in sunset itself. Saved from anniliat... (more)

The mysterious greatness that is steam is embodied by this sole survivor of 14 siblings.

69 years old, we are blessed it is here to tell us of another time on this earth.

As day draws nigh, the firemen draws water to slake the thrist of the steam machine.

Railroading knows not the light or dark of the day, only the time.

Coal railroad, coal country, coal locomotive. CNJ No. 113 on Santa Train duty. She is chunky and all guts.

Railroading doesn't stop in the snow.

Green and silver Baldwin Locomotive Works 0-6-0 No. 26 was built in March 1929 and was one of three similar switchers that worked at Baldwin, clasping couplers with magnificent machines like New H... (more)

This sad cab from a 1947 built Alco FA-2 freight locomotive was originally the New York, New Haven & Hartford No. 0402. After years of hard service, in 1963, the railroad traded in 0402 to Alco to... (more)

The seventeen-arch Starrucca Viaduct is a monumental feat of nineteenth-century engineering. Started in 1847 and completed in 1848, it is the oldest stone-arch railroad bridge still in use in Penn... (more)

"NYC 4083 is a one-of-a-kind locomotive that New York Central painted in the experimental “Century Green” paint scheme. It was one one of three units, in an A-B-A set which received the s... (more)