Pride. A last minute touch up for R&N #425 with special attention to her new number board designed by Ryan Bausher and created by Wayne James. The polishing pose - brought to you in real l... (more)

In an effort to get some good light at the Valley, fellow RP photographer and Valley volunteer, Dennis Livesey and I return late one night for a ""Your Hand On The Throttle" trip through the yard.... (more)

With the morning turntable demonstration now complete, the National Park Service Yard Foreman leads his big Pacific out of the roundhouse complex and into the yard. Shortly, a Park Ranger will l... (more)

We are in Canadian National steam locomotive Class S-1-b No. 3254's cab. Engineer Aaron Stout is filling out the Form D and is minutes away from pulling the throttle in the foreground for a Steamt... (more)

Jack Emerick III is one of the most skillful firemen I have ever seen. I swear he could make an engine hot with ice cubes. He is on Steamtown's Canadian National No. 3254 steam locomotive on a ro... (more)

At 4:00am, crew members at the Durango and Silverton take a few minute break before going outside to ready the locomotives for the day's run to Silverton. In just a few minutes time, these same cr... (more)

At 4:30am, crew members at the Durango and Silverton begin their daily chores of servicing and preparing their locomotives for their daily run to Silverton. Seen here, a crew member walks through... (more)

While waiting for the Leaman Place bound passenger train, Engineer Jim Rice of the Strasburg RR talks to a curious Amishman reguarding the NS 999 and NS 6324 heading to Conrail Days festivities at... (more)

Work on Decapod 2-10-0 number 90 (Baldwin 1924, ex Great Western) in the shed in Strasburg.

Reading & Northern 425's crew firemen Ryan Bausher, Bill Riegle, conductor Rich Bernhart and engineer Shane Frederickson proudly pose in front of their charge at the beginning of a great roundtrip... (more)

For my 100th RP image let me introduce a genuine steam locomotive engineer. This is Aaron Stout and he is about to unleash Canadian National No. 3254's 53,000 lbs. of tractive effort and thus prop... (more)

Before departure from Tunkhannock for Jim Thorpe, the RBMN crew poses with the queen of the fleet. Despite the dreary weather, these guys put smiles on the faces of hundreds of passengers, railfan... (more)

In the winter of 1985, Amtrak hired me to take photographs of their equipment and employees. I've just scanned a mess of these and hope you enjoy. Here, a worker applies the Viewliner decal to a r... (more)

Linn Moedinger, Jim Rice and Stephen Weaver work to clear the switch so plow #66 a and N&W #475 can plow through. It will be just 36hrs until the next nor'easter will come through and dump more sn... (more)

Sadly, on January 4, 2010, Richard Markle, long-time conductor on the WMSR, boarded that “Great Train” in the sky. Mr Markle was a beloved railroader, who took his job seriously. He exuded a... (more)