It’s the 1986 Blue Mountain & Reading Railfan Weekend, and two trains are running all day long, with different power on almost every trip. In preparation for meeting a southbound train pulled by... (more)

Passengers disembarking from the "Midday Congressional" from New York

The Silent Watcher

Long-silent Pennsylvania Railroad GP9 #7048 stands watch over Horseshoe Curve. In September, she will have been here for 30 years--2 years longer than 1361 was. On... (more)

Twenty-Seven and a half minutes elapse in this collection of four shots layered together as the Pennsy signal bridge at AR (Allegheny Range) stands tall against the backdrop of the swirling night ... (more)

An early Penn Central version of the "South Wind", as it approaches Louisville. Note the red/white "worms" on the PC emblem on the second unit

Pennsylvania GG1 No. 4890 sits in the house track at Waukesha, Wisconsin, on a cold January 14, 1995, night, during a moving trip on Wisconsin Central. The Raymond Loewy-designed streamlined elect... (more)

Pennsylvania Railroad G5s Juniata class of 1924 with E7 5901 in background.

Pennsylvania Railroad D16sb class "American" type, Altoona Works class of 1905 and star of the 1969 film; "Hello, Dolly!" (sorry, Barbara Streisand) Ronks, PA June 2016.

The "East Coast Champion" passing Nassau Tower on its way south

A Pennsy transfer pounds the iron under the Eads Bridge.

PRR Brill doodlebug 4666 prepares to depart Ringoes, New Jersey. The 1930 gas-electric has quite a boomer history, having served on the Arcade & Attica, Penn View Mountain, and the New Hope & Ivyl... (more)

PRR 1223 in steam in the weeds behind the museum, switching onto the track to the turntable. The occasion is the 85th Anniversary of the Broadway Limited, and the 1223 is to be posed at Leaman Pl... (more)

The first GG-1 and the last E-44 are occupying the same turntable track in the mid-90s. "Old Rivets" still looked half-decent here, 13 years after her initial restoration by the Strasbu... (more)

What's now Amtrak's Metroliner Conference Car No. 9800 is seen here in its operating days rocketing past the half-hour Strasburg steam train power of the mid/late 80s. It was built by Budd as sna... (more)

The PRR 1361 is whistling for a farm crossing, as pacers on US Route 220 chase the 4-car train from Milesburg to Tyrone.