Here's a tender-forward view of GS3 #215 which just yarded it's one-car train after a Saturday run. Summer season trains on the PRSL brought out the Pacifics for a last hurrah, it's only six year... (more)

A view from above the tender of the Reading steam engines shows the small yard, turnaround track, and the main in the distance. This is the commuter service from Hammonton to Camden. to Camden.

Reading engine #218 is another of the G3 Pacifics still holding down duty on PRSL runs at this date. The PRSL Baldwin AS-16 diesels are invading though, and the Pacific's service lives are nearin... (more)

The high-level platforms at the North Philly stop offer an interesting contrast with the K4 making a scheduled stop on this Saturday run to Wildwood. The photographer has chanced fate to run up f... (more)

PRR 3882 will lead this regularly scheduled Saturday run out of 30th St. to Wildwood N.J. The photographer took this photo prior to boarding with his friend Bill Rosenberg for a day of railfannin... (more)

Engine #215 simmers after yarding it's 1-car train into the Hammonton yard. In the PRR style on the pilot beam, EA stands for Eastern Region, and CTE means Camden Terminal Enginehouse.

This Saturday run in July of 1954 from 30th St. in Philadelphia to Wildwood, N.J. was led by K4 #3882. It's seen here making a station stop at Haddonfield.

An eastbound Union Pacific freight train has just exited one of the Hermosa tunnels on Wyoming's Sherman Hill on August 17, 1957. Road power is 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" no. 4019, assisted by 4-8-4 no. 82... (more)

Southern Railway Ks-1 Class Consolidation number 685 is shown between runs at the mountain division point of Asheville, North Carolina. The 685 was part of rather large group of similar engines on... (more)

Extra 987 moves west through San Antonio heading for El Paso one summer afternoon.

This is another shot by the late R.D. (Dick) Sharpless of Atlanta. It shows us why a "going away" shot has many redeeming values. The engine--Southern Railway Ms-4 Mike 4866--was built by Alco's R... (more)

A photograph I know little about showing a trio of 2-8-2s. A pair of NYC engines, with H5 No 1555 nearest, looking like they are about to push a coal train whilst partly hidden is Louisville & Nas... (more)

Cumberland Valley Division local passenger number 12, a daily Norton, VA to Pineville, KY run, steams downgrade out of Callahan’s Nose Tunnel between Appalachia and Big Stone Gap, Virginia in Ju... (more)

This is "Big Emma." When the Louisville & Nashville Railroad elected to seriously upgrade its freight motive power in the early '40s, it went whole-hog for a Baldwin-built variant of the Van Sweri... (more)

One of the smallest and least remarked "union" stations in the country was the L&N depot at Appalachia, VA. Served by the Interstate (until 1928), Southern (until 1939) and L&N (until 1953), the f... (more)