Strasburg Railroad 89 and Strasburg Railroad 90 idle side by side at Cherry Hill with reenactors posed with the locomotives making the scene feel even more authentic to the 1960s.

Strasburg Railroad 89 pulls into a siding with a well-sized and well-proportioned freight train, thus concluding the morning session of the Steam Strikes Back Photo Charter.

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.

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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.