Strasburg Rail Road 2-10-0 No. 90 passes over the only bridge on the railroad with a Night Before Christmas Train. This backlit scene is a new perspective on a frequently photographed location.

Freshly overhauled from another 1472 inspection, Canadian National Mogul #89, perhaps the most handsome of all locomotives at the Strasburg Rail Road, rounds Long Curve outside of Paradise, PA wit... (more)

SRC #90 makes up time as she speeds toward Esbenshade Crossing in the late afternoon light of a fall day.

Engineer Richie Maggs monitors the movements of the 1:30 pm train through the turnout from his perch on Canadian National #89. Meanwhile, Great Western #90 has a full head of steam and preps for t... (more)

Two locomotives from a bygone era, are getting hot inside the enginehouse of the Strasburg Rail Road. Here, Canadian National #89's safety lifts enveloping Great Western decapod #90 in steam signa... (more)

Riders of the Strasburg's "Santa's Paradise Express" got an added bonus today- a steady, wet snowfall; the first of the season. No. 89 leads the 1:30 train back to Strasburg as No. 90 heads east ... (more)

Merry Christmas, from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania- the recently retired 915 and the PRR 4800 ("Old Rivets") are being pelted with the first snow of the season.

Warming up on a cool gray morning

Engineer Ted Krumreich has SRC #90 hooked up as the sun glints just over the horizon signalling the end to what was another successful day of steam railroading on the Strasburg Rail Road.

N&W #475's hooter echos against the buildings lining the Amtrak and former PRR main near Paradise, PA on October 23, 2017. This location is called Leaman Place junction (pronounced "LEMON&quo... (more)

A doubleheaded steam consist passes the timeless farms of Lancaster County Pennsylvania....

Horses of Flesh and Iron

The Abingdon Branch is noted for how little life seems to have changed over the last half century. Draft teams are still a common sight on farms along the V-... (more)

Pre-departure At Bristol

A lantern trail is left by the conductor walking train 201 as it prepares to depart the yard at Bristol, Virginia for Abingdon in the autumn of 1956. The loc... (more)

M Class comparison. Two of Norfolk & Western's numerous M Class 4-8-0s spend the cool autumn night outside an engine house in southern Virginia. Thanks to a "pit crew" of abou... (more)

If one could transport back to the time of steam on the Canadian Prairies perhaps it was in late October outside of Strasburg, Pennsylvania with SRC #89. Here, racing across the "Flats" ... (more)