Bringing out the lights: "The Lantern Girl". The Everett Railroad's "Lantern Girl" arrives on the platform to distribute lanterns to the crew of a mixed train powered by Everett Mogul #11, prior to an evening departure.
This scene was staged during a November, 2021 photo charter on Pennsylvania's Everett Railroad, organized by Historic Transport Preservation (HTP). It was an attempt to re-create a classic photo from Life Magazine, in which a young female employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad appears with an armload of kerosene lanterns to distribute to a departing crew. In this case, all of the re-enactors here are indeed employees of the Everett Railroad, and the venue for the scene is the small station in Roaring Spring, PA.
Steam scenes from Pennsylvania's Everett Railroad, featuring the former Bath & Hammondsport 2-6-0 #11, operating on photo charters and local Christmas Trains.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
