USSC kicked off the 2020 harvest season by hauling the first sugar loads to the mill using its newly refurbished steam locomotive number 148! Here it is seen just after departing its christening c... (more)

Quite a few steam locomotive enthusiasts refer to the Bavarian four-cylinder express train locomotives S 3/6 as the most beautiful machines ever built. The 4-6-2 locomotive # 3673 was built in 191... (more)

Quite a few steam locomotive enthusiasts refer to the Bavarian four-cylinder express trains locomotive S 3/6 as the most beautiful machines ever built. The 4-6-2 locomotive # 3673 was built in 191... (more)

Reading & Northern 425's profile shines on a beautiful July morning.

1504 awaits its rebuild for US Sugar.

Pennsy K4s No. 1361 is bathed in its own steam, just prior to the return trip to Altoona on a rainy Saturday in April of 1987. Imagine hand-firing this locomotive up the grades west of Philly, sa... (more)

A Steamtown 4-6-2/2-8-2 doubleheader, pulling 12 cars and crossing the great Nicholson Bridge in a photo runby. I recall detraining and piling into a school bus, which deposited us in a farmer's f... (more)

Reading & Northern 425 storms up the grade through a farm as it nears the top of Hometown Hill.

Highballing home to Altoona after a day on the Bald Eagle Valley Branch PRR K4s No. 1361 has just passed the signal bridge at Tipton south of Tyrone.

Pennsy K4s No. 1361 has a respectable 8 cars in tow, crossing over at ROSE with a Bellefonte-Altoona excursion. The limit for a K4s up the mountain was 6 cars; hopefully we will get to see No. 13... (more)

Reading & Northern #425 crosses the former CNJ railway bridge at Nesquehoning Junction on the afternoon of July 4, 2021. Below is the Lehigh River flowing to the east and eventually emptying into ... (more)

Reading and Northern 425 passes through Milepost 126 in the Lehigh Gorge.

Having crossed over Norfolk Southern's Lehigh Line, R&N's 4-6-2 Pacific, No. 425 coasts downhill along the former CNJ line returning to grade level for its trip north through the Lehigh Gorge, cap... (more)

Reading & Northern's 1928 Baldwin built Pacific leads a morning excursion from Jim Thorpe, through the rock cut, and into the Lehigh Gorge.

Reading & Northern 4-6-2 No. 425, former Gulf Mobile & Ohio, pulls the 11 am excursion from Jim Thorpe, PA, north to Penn Haven Junction within the Lehigh River Gorge on the R&N operated Lehigh Go... (more)