RBMN #425 blasts out of the tunnel under route 93 at Nesquehoning, PA with the return excursion from Jim Thorpe to North Reading.

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)

Will this happen in 2023 ? Have a great New Year.

The steam locomotive 01 519 drives past Aldingen with a special advent train.

Ready to Go! N&W 1218 will shortly be towed out of the Roanoke Transportation Museum and then on to Birmingham Alabama to be overhauled. Sections of panel track have been laid into the museum fro... (more)

ATSF 3460 leads a twelve car Fast Mail Express, ATSF train 7, doing 60 MPH, just east of La Junta Colorado, on June 4th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

This Mikado was built in 1954 for CSN (steel plant in the state of Rio de Janeiro) by Arnold Jung (Germany) and since the 1990s it has been operated by Giordani Turismo to pull tourist trains in s... (more)

RBNM 425 departs the Reading Outer Station

Rain pours outside of Barnesville, PA on December 3, 2022 as Reading & Northern #425 makes haste for the Hometown High Bridge hauling the R&N's Santa Claus Special out of Tamaqua.

Reading & Northern 4-6-2 #425 thunders up the grade to the Hometown High Bridge on December 3, 2022 as she approaches Barnesville, PA on the former Reading Railroad mainline hauling the R&N's annu... (more)

The machine in the middle is a sparkless mining locomotive.

Boarding the train after a photo runby of the IGE steam charter "Winterdampf im Jura" at Le Frambourg between Pontarlier/France and Les Verrières. In the rear of the train is 2-10-0 &qu... (more)

The 4-6-0 fourcylinder compound expresstrain steamlocomotive A 3/5 # 705 of SBB Historic is pulling a charter train of the IGE during the 3 days "Winterdampf im Jura" program from Pontar... (more)

ATSF 3940 is seen in mid-train helper service, near Pine Lodge California, on April 26th 1933, during The Great Depression. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Iron Horse Society's North Pole Limited passing the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel.