Reading & Northern #2102 blasts past Nesquehoning Jct on October 14, 2023 as she works hard in the rain, wide open, reversing her train for the afternoon run south to Reading, PA for an R&N annual... (more)

Reading & Northern #2102, on a rainy October 14, 2023, races north to Jim Thorpe outside of New Ringgold, PA on one of the annual R&N sponsored Fall Foliage Specials.

Heavy rain falls as the sky erupts with the continuous thunder of Reading & Northern T1 #2102 making time south towards Reading, PA on October 14, 2023. Here the '02, as it's affectionately called... (more)

SP train number 2, the Sunset Limited, hustles at 40 MPH near Glendale California in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Santa Fe 3751 from the fireman side. I saw the 3751 for the first time on November 26, 1976 when it was still on display in San Bernardino. After it was restored by the San Bernardino Railway His... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 from the engineer side. I saw the 3751 for the first time on November 26, 1976 when it was still on display in San Bernardino. After it was restored by the San Bernardino Railway Hi... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

SP train 70, The Coaster, is on the move near Glendale California at 40 MPH, with 13 cars, in 1940. Otto's trusty 1935 Ford V-8 sedan is visible at left. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collectio... (more)

"Station Stop! - Tamaqua, Mahanoy City, Shamokin and all points north!" Reading & Northern #2102 stops at Port Clinton on the morning of October 14, 2023 as she boards additional passeng... (more)

Thundering north past former Reading Railroad telegraph poles, Reading & Northern T1 #2102 thunders through Barnesville, PA as engineman Shane Frederickson mans the left hand seat on October 14, 2... (more)

My father had a LP record called "Valley of the Steam Locomotives", which featured different NdeM steam locomotives. Sometimes when mom and my sisters were out of the house for a while, my dad wou... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

SP 4449 has arrived in Wenatchee, WA with the American Freedom Train in early November 1975. The engine has been placed at the locomotive facilities for fuel/water before continuing west over Stev... (more)

Fireman Shane Frederickson hangs the white extra flags on Reading 2102 shortly before it departs Reading Outer Station.

Engineer Shane Frederickson checks Reading 2102's feedwater heater system shortly before the locomotive departs Port Clinton.