On a wonderful fall morning the WMSR 734 makes a wonderful plume of smoke as it struts its stuff for the participants of a Carl Franz Photo Charter

Western Maryland Shay #6 releases a large plume of smoke as she backs up before making another runbys for the photographer.

Pre-dawn view of CPR 2816 storming out of Lake Loiuse. Excursion passengers had overnighted there with train departing long before the sun came over the mountains.

Steamtown occasionally operates a steam excursion to the the Ice Harvesting Festival in Tobyhanna, PA. Seldom does the event operate under frigid conditions, sunshine and snow on the ground but t... (more)

The 475 (disguised as the 382 for a Pete Lerro photo freight) dusts the snow-covered Amish farmland with a nice coat of cinders.

An afternoon stopping service from Wolsztyn to Poznan departs from Szreniawa

She'll be coming 'round the corner when she comes...

Western Maryland 734 navigates the Narrows during sunrise on a frigidly cold Sunday morning.

Western Maryland 734 approaches Brush tunnel from this impressive over head view moments before I was engulfed in smoke.

Traversing the mountains of Northern Pennsylvania, CN #3254 takes the lead with a full consist headed East out of Scranton, PA during a Steamtown Winter run.

Now THAT's what I call exhaust - even an Alco would be jealous! A pair of geeps sit on the "mainline" in front of the Fairbanks yard office humming away in high idle working hard just to ... (more)

Western Maryland Carl Franz photo Freight at it crosses over the Potomac River in some really serious pea soup thick fog. Photo taken from high atop Wills Mountain

A plume taller than the trees, as high as Price Hill. A Carl Franz charter.

At the peak of fall, WMSR's finest goes for, not a full spin, call it a wiggle as it shifts from track 1 to track 2. A Carl Franz photo charter.

This was the glorious return of a classic locomotive class that was (and is) wholly appropriate to the Settle & Carlisle route. 'Royal Scot' No.46115 'Scots Guardsman' thunders out of Stainforth t... (more)