“The World’s Fastest Locomotive…”
…so claimed the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1949.

From 1983-1989 Strasburg Rail Road rostered No. 7002, leased from the Pennsylvania Histo... (more)

The Strasburg-PHMC-Lancaster Chapter NRHS doubleheaded 7002-1223 steam special backing onto the Conrail Buffalo Line behind Rockville Tower. The tower was closed in 1986 and was later razed. Bot... (more)

An East Broad Top excursion pulls into Orbisonia behind 2-8-2 #15.

In the early light of day, a Blue Mountain & Reading Temple – Harrisburg glides over the Schuylkill River on Conrail’s Lebanon Valley Line at Reading, Pennsylvania. The long girder bridge shar... (more)

A Blue Mountain & Reading Temple – Harrisburg excursion is just under way at Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania. For reasons that I don’t recall, the train avoided the Reading Belt line and inst... (more)

After a successful round trip to Philadelphia, Reading 4-8-4 2102 backs the Blue Mountain & Reading excursion toward home rails at Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania. The connection between Conrail�... (more)

With the Neversink Mountain as a backdrop, Reading 4-8-4 2102 rolls a Temple – Philadelphia excursion west at Klapperthal Junction, Pennsylvania. This track is a connector between the former Rea... (more)

Looking right at home, Reading 4-8-4 2102 leads the return leg of a Reading – Philadelphia excursion west at Colebrookdale Junction, Pennsylvania. Seen above and left of the big Northern is the ... (more)

Lettered for her original owner, New Hope & Ivyland #40 is seen here on a trip in 2006.

George Hart’s ex-Canadian Pacific 4-6-0 972 was relettered for the Cumberland Valley Railroad and ran several excursions in honor of the sesquicentennial of the 1835 CV charter. Here one of thos... (more)

Reading & Northern 425's storms up the final section of Hometown Hill as she leads the year's very first Fall Foliage Excursion back to Jim Thorpe.

A Steamtown 4-6-2/2-8-2 doubleheader, pulling 12 cars and crossing the great Nicholson Bridge in a photo runby. I recall detraining and piling into a school bus, which deposited us in a farmer's f... (more)

Highballing home to Altoona after a day on the Bald Eagle Valley Branch PRR K4s No. 1361 has just passed the signal bridge at Tipton south of Tyrone.

Pennsy Atlantic No. 7002 performing a runby with period cars from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, during the commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the PRR train, "The Broadway Limited... (more)

Reading T-1 No. 2102, working upgrade along the Little Schuylkill Branch in 1991. Thirty of these locomotives (2100-2129) were produced by the Reading Shops between 1945 and 1947, heavily rebuilt... (more)