As the fireman waits for steam pressure, he gets his engine lubed for the first run of the weekend.

N&W 1151, one of the "lost engines of Roanoke", sits outside the Virginia Museum of Transportation below the Fifth Street bridge. This locomotive and several others were recently "saved" from the ... (more)

N&W #382 is parked in front of the Strausburg Station on a windy and cold frigid night.

The constant whine of the dynamo and the panting of the air pump fill the air on the deserted platform of a country railway station in Virginia. The date is 1956 and the locomotive simmering bef... (more)

Norfolk & Western #382 steams through the snow & the Lancaster County countryside as it steams toward the sunset during the Lerro Productions photo special. Notice the drivers are kicking up the s... (more)

Shrouded in a veil of blowing snow and steam, Train 202, "The Virginia Creeper" charges through a rural farm crossing on it's northbound run to Abingdon.

Trailing a beautiful, cold weather plume, the Lerro Productions rendition of "The Virginia Creeper" drifts toward a February sunset at Fairview.

Minutes away from its final destination in West Jefferson, NC, N&W Train 201, the southbound Virginia Creeper, passes a local farmer keeping watch to his cows. The date may not be 1956, but the St... (more)

Engineer Joe McNew extracts as much speed as he can from his 50-year-old Mollie #382 in an effort to keep the Virginia Creeper on schedule. It's a freezing cold February afternoon and he and fire... (more)

The sparkles in the snow contrast with the carbon build-up on the globe of a Strasburg Rail Road lantern during Pete Lerro's Virginia Creeper photo charter. One of the most interesting aspects of ... (more)

1 week after the Lerro Productions charter trip, the Strasbrug Railroad #475 still wearing the Norfolk & Western Heritage steams eastward back to Strasburg in the still high snow banks of Carpente... (more)

A night runby during a Lerro Productions event.

Pride
Owen Hawkins * Strasburg Shops * Lerro Productions.