An anthracite Christmas in Minersville, Pennsylvania...

"Figures in the Fog": CNJ #113 warmed up her cylinders on the morning of November 30, 2019 outside of Minersville station in Minersville, Pennsylvania.

"Every last drop counts...": CNJ #113 Volunteer Christopher Hohman oiled various lubrication points on the running gear of the anthracite burning 0-6-0 outside of Minersville, Pennsylvan... (more)

Jake Pothering walked the tight rope to check a few odds and ends on CNJ #113 prior to a day of Santa Claus Specials on November 30, 2019.

CNJ #113 posing for photos before pulling its first "Santa Train" excursion of the day.

CNJ #113 nearing Minersville during its annual "Santa Train" excursions.

Coal railroad, coal country, coal locomotive. CNJ No. 113 on Santa Train duty. She is chunky and all guts.

Central Railroad of New Jersey 113 leads the first Santa train of the year into the well-decorated Minersville station on a dreary December day.

Smokey diesel. (CNJ 113 0-6-0 is smoking it up)

Reading & Northern 2532 brings up the markers on the Project 113 Easter Bunny trains.

A pair of R&N SD38s power a export coal train in the process of being loaded near Minersville, PA. [Oct. 2016]

Reading and Northern's RDC's make a station shop at the former Reading Railroad station in Minersille, PA. The station which once saw as many as 24 trains daily was was built in 1913 but closed o... (more)

Easter Done Like Christmas

CNJ 115 (really 113 masquerading as her long-scrapped sister) pulls into the station at Minersville, PA to start loading passengers for the day's Easter Bu... (more)

Anthracite Country

Central of New Jersey #113 (disguised as long-scrapped sister 115) trundles over a swollen and obviously-polluted Little Schuylkill River outside Minersville. In t... (more)

CNJ #113, disguised as CNJ #115, marches her way with her train into the yard north of Minersville Station. Fans from across the area, came to see the anthracite burning steam locomotive pull the ... (more)