Working in the Loveland Yard. A Freight Agent from the Great Western Railway of Colorado chats with a local farmer, who has stopped by the Loveland Yard to drop off some produce for shipmen... (more)

A gloomy winter day on the Front Range. It's a gloomy, damp February afternoon on the high plains east of Colorado's Front Range, as a Great Western freight makes its way west toward Lovela... (more)

Passing farms in Watauga. A westbound Norfolk & Western Train 202, "The Virginia Creeper", passes a dairy farm in Watauga, VA, en route back to her base in Abingdon.

This rat... (more)

Well on her way over the rolling grades of the Strasburg Rail Road, SRC #90 sends smoke signals to the railroad's neighbors indicating that another day of railroading has arrived in Amish country.

At about 7:30 am Engineman Jim Rice gives a tug to the throttle of #90 and headed East on the morning of July 26, 2020. If you were running or firing a steam locomotive, you'd be smiling too.

The air test complete, a quick crew chat in the morning sun is required prior to departing for Leaman Place Junction with former Great Western decapod #90.

"Summer Glint": Hostler Jeff Frost eyes a couple appliances atop the boiler of former Great Western decapod #90 on the morning of July 26, 2020 as she sits on the blowdown pad in the eas... (more)

About one hour or so later the crew for today's "In-cab experiences", Eric Peffel, Jim Rice, and Russell Shurtleff, arrive on the job. I'd like to imagine that scenes like this were comm... (more)

Hostler Jeff Frost climbs aboard SRC #90 to check on his fire on the morning of July 26, 2020. While surrounded by beautiful Amish countryside, the searing heat and humidity of this gorgeous morni... (more)

With SRC #90 now over the ash pit, hostler Jeff Frost grabs a hose and gets to work flushing all the ash from yesterday's fire and overnight bank into the bottom of the ash pan and out into the pi... (more)

Under a brilliant sunrise, another morning of steam railroading began on the Strasburg Rail Road on July 26, 2020 as former Great Western #90 sits adjacent to the coaling dock. On this particular ... (more)

Strasburg 90 brings the last run of the day into the station on a wonderful fall afternoon with the company Model T displayed on the platform. Both of these awesome machines were built in 1924, an... (more)

Freight meets passenger at Strasburg as their SW8 waits between assignments, coupled up to a cut of hoppers while the 89 brings a passenger train into town.

The 3PM train approaches a spring switch guarded by a position light indicator as they pass the growing transload freight operation and arrive back in Strasburg.

#89 leans into the start of Long's Curve outside of Paradise Pennsylvania as she races home on an early spring afternoon.