Engineer Thomas Holder and fireman Roy Miller are ready for duty as departure time nears for one of the many trains run during the East Broad Top's annual Fall Spectacular.

The newest object in this photo is... A) NS 9414, B) Reading & Northern 425 or C) Penobscot Tower. R&N 425 is the correct answer, as it had just emerged from a complete rebuild the previous... (more)

Hints of fall can already be found in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. During one of Tropical Storm Hanna's heavier rain bands, Reading & Northern 425 coasts downgrade into the north portal of Whi... (more)

With the light fading fast, NS 5620 and 3393 break the idyllic silence as they cut through Brainards, New Jersey, as seen from across the Delaware River in Pennsylvania.

After much debate about what to do for my 500th accepted photo, I decided to go back to the beginning. My first accepted shot was a night shot (Railroad: Reading & Northern
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-2
Location: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: RBMN 425
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 05, 2008

Neither snow nor rain... ..nor Tropical Storm Hanna can keep the Four-and-a-Quarter from her appointed rounds. In the midst of a heavy downpour (note the drops on the river), Reading & Nort... (more)

Strange visitors in Scranton. Who would have imagined that, while visiting Steamtown, you could climb aboard an Amtrak Sightseer Lounge and see a CSX ES44H and a Lehigh & New England caboos... (more)

Amtrak over Tunkhannock. Amtrak P42 75 leads three Superliners and two private cars (L&N Ohio River and NYC Hickory Creek) over the massive Tunkhannock Viaduct and the village of Nicholson ... (more)

The northeast's three Class 1 railroads were represented at Steamtown's Lackawanna Railfest with NS C40-9W 9678, Delaware & Hudson (CP) GP38-2 7312, and CSX ES44H 909 on display at the roundhouse.

Like a scene from the 1950s, two RS-3s hustle a passenger train north toward Scranton, bringing people into town for Steamtown's 2008 Lackawanna Railfest as well as Scranton's La Festa Italiana.

Amtrak P42 75 cuts through the fog and mist of northeast Pennsylvania as it heads south with an equipment move for display at Lackawanna Railfest at Steamtown.

Another Lackawanna Railfest, another derailment. In what has become a sort of awful tradition, while performing some switching moves on Friday night, a switch was reportedly thrown in front of CP ... (more)

Ohio Central 4-6-2 1293 streaks through the night as it departs the Cuyahoga Valley's Rockside Road station. This September, the Pacific will return for another weekend of trips.

Another one bites the dust... Western Maryland BL2 82 passes a former mine operation that is slowly being scrapped a few miles west of Elkins. Note the twisted conveyors on the ground at ri... (more)

The classic D&H signals still stand guard at the north end of Afton siding as CP 8777 leads a manifest southbound through the small town. Note that RailPower 2405 "Green Goat" is the third unit in... (more)