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)

The Sun Sets on the Virginia Creeper

The sun hangs low over the countryside outside Abingdon, Virginia. Mixed train 202 is returning from a day on the Abindgon Branch, or as it is lo... (more)

Ghost of the Virginia Creeper

A 3 hour late train 202 accelerates over a small concrete overpass bound for Abingdon, and later Bristol, where the engine will be serviced and banked u... (more)

Two ladies in 1940s garb await to board the arriving special mixed train at Strasburg. The Lerro Productions charter of 6 freight cars, a combine, and a coach was powered by the Norfolk & Western... (more)

The regular 12 o'clock train pounds up the grade, passing the Strasburg/Lerro Productions charter in the siding. The charter was powered by 4-8-0 No. 475 disguised as No. 382, pulling 6 vintage f... (more)

This former New York Central EMD-SW8 is Strasburg Railroad's newest in the fleet being built in February of 1953.Today it mostly serves as one might expect as the railroad's primary freight switch... (more)

With unseasonably warm Fall temperatures, the flowers outside of Groff's Grove are still making their mind up about whether to batten down for Winter or not, as Canadian National #89, Great Wester... (more)

Acid rain bitten headstones still stand within one of the oldest if not the oldest cemetery in Pennsylvania as Canadian National #89 and Norfolk & Western #475 approach Carpenter's Crossing on a c... (more)

Fireman Dave Domitrovich monitors the ROW on the left hand seat of CN #89 as Fireman Erich Armpriester leans out of the gangway on N&W #475. Both are highballing toward Carpenter's Crossing on Oc... (more)

Steam, smoke and the sound of a replica N&W hooter pierce the silence around Beiler's Crossing on a cool, brisk October morning as N&W #475 displays why N&W steam is so special to the hearts of ma... (more)

AMTK 915 joined its predecessors in Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.