Reading Lines GP30 No. 5513 and T-1 No. 2102 posing at the old South Hamburg station area on the Blue Mountain and Reading's ex-PRR Schuylkill Division

The N&W A and J are racing past the photo line, transporting hundreds of NRHS conventioneers back to the glory days of steam. One wonders if this scene will ever be repeated...

The Strasburg crew is doing some early-morning switching, using their ex-PRR 1948-built GE 44-tonner. Originally numbered as PRR 9331, the Strasburg dropped the "9" and "1," c... (more)

Reading T-1 No. 2102, working upgrade along the Little Schuylkill Branch in 1991. Thirty of these locomotives (2100-2129) were produced by the Reading Shops between 1945 and 1947, heavily rebuilt... (more)

Alco Century 630 No. 5308 posed with EMD GP30 No. 5513 at the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern / Reading Company Technical & Historical Society 1991 railfan weekend night photo session- down by ... (more)

The captured Krupp-built German railway gun, "Leopold," at the old US Army Ordnance Museum near Aberdeen, MD. The barrel is 283 mm (11.1") in diameter X 71 feet long, with a range of 40 miles. A... (more)

In its last year of operation, Pennsy D16sb No. 1223 runs around its mixed freight, in a view from J-Tower. Photo taken by my wife; conductor was the late H. Fox, guarding the now-gone pedestrian... (more)

The recently restored UP Big Boy 4012, at Steamtown on National Train Day 2021

N&W Class A No. 1218 on the wye at Lynchburg on the first of its two trips out of Roanoke that day. Later in the afternoon, it would head west to Walton. The tool car is ex-CN, and had not yet b... (more)

We're Dutch-dooring it on the "Broadway" as it descends the grade around Horseshoe Curve on a rainy Sunday morning in October of 1977. Pennsy K4s No. 1361 (Juniata, 1918) is in view, in... (more)

The N&W A and J are racing past the photo line, transporting hundreds of conventioneers back to the glory days of steam. One wonders if this scene will ever be repeated.

One of Lima's finest- C&O's J3-a Greenbrier No. 614; built June, 1948- 255 psi, 72" drivers, 68,300 lbf, 4.13 factor of adhesion.

N&W's Class A No. 1218 is rolling down the old Pennsy Sandusky Branch toward Columbus, pulling an excursion from Bellevue to the Ohio State Fair. The N&W acquired the Sandusky Branch from the PRR... (more)

A below-the-rails look at PRR K4s No. 1361 (Juniata, 1918,) which has just made an unscheduled maintenance stop. "A simple engine with marine cylinders- with equally abundant steaming capaci... (more)

PRR K4s No. 1361 (Juniata, 1918) in a back-up move, giving us a good view of its 130P75 tender. (13,000 gallons, Passenger service, 75" high firing deck; 22 tons of coal.) The track curving... (more)