Mikados At Night. On August 14, 2020 during a night shoot at the East Broad Top Railroad in Rockhill, Pennsylvania, EBT 2-8-2s 17 (Baldwin, 1918) and 18 (Baldwin, 1920) were posed, lighted, and 'steamed up' (with fake smoke) as part of the event. Both locomotives are making (what was at the time) a rare appearance out of the roundhouse as EBT 17 pulled the last revenue freight train and last operated in 2001, while 18 was the locomotive purchased by the railroad and 'retired' due to technical problems in 1956, never turning a wheel under steam during Kovalchick ownership. The nickname "Mikado" was applied to a group of 2-8-2 narrow gauge locomotives that were built by Baldwin for Nippon Railway of Japan in 1897, but it was the popularity of the 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan opera, 'The Mikado' that put the word into the American vernacular.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
