Handle with care: A "high profile" load on the WW&F - Part 5. With the North Yard Switch now behind them, the special train heads for the Yard Limit sign ahead. It will stop up a... (more)

Handle with care: A "high profile" load on the WW&F - Part 4. The last major obstacle which posed a serious clearance problem for the transport of the shelter building was the She... (more)

Handle with care: A "high profile" load on the WW&F - Part 3. Beginning her slow crawl through the Sheepscot Yard, WW&&F #9 passes a second idler flat and Caboose 320, which can b... (more)

Handle with care: A "high profile" load on the WW&F - Part 2. WW&F Locomotive #9, a fully-restored, 1891 Portland Company Product, and a locomotive which ran on the original railr... (more)

Handle with care: A "high profile" load on the WW&F - Part 1. The winter of 2023 brought some changes to the WW&F Museum's Sheepscot Yard. After decades of use, the museum's pass... (more)

Pennsylvania Narrow Gauge Reborn. When rail enthusiasts hear the words "Narrow Gauge", they usually think of Colorado, not Pennsylvania. Visions of roundhouses full of K-28s and K-36s come... (more)

A chilly night in Cumberland. It's a chilly night on the platform at the station in Cumberland, MD as a brakeman positions himself to marshal Locomotive #1309 to the standpipe for water. T... (more)

Got Steam? The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's recently-restored C&O Locomotive #1309 certainly does. At times, it has all you can handle and more. In this scene, a Brakeman uses lant... (more)

Steamscape: The Helmstetter Farm. One of the most iconic railfan photo spots in the eastern United States has to be this location right here. Spotted in the center of a big, sweeping, horse... (more)

Classic Helmstetter's. In a scene that is a bit reminiscent of the classic Bill Price photos of the Western Maryland Railroad, a heavy, articulated freight locomotive makes its way around t... (more)

Dragging coal. The coal drags on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad of the early 1950s are re-created for the cameras in February of 2023 as Class H-6 Mallet Locomotive #1309 charges across a s... (more)

Breaking in a new horse. Wednesday, February 1st of 2023 was a monumental day in the re-birth of the East Broad Top Railroad in Rockhill Furnace, PA. On this day, the first steam locomoti... (more)

Back 'er up! With the cylinder cocks open and the valve gear set in reverse, the crew of EBT Locomotive #16 takes their newly restored Baldwin Mikado backward toward the south yard in littl... (more)

The Big J heads west. With just seconds of daylight left, Norfolk & Western J-Class Northern #611 charges west through the Fairview section of Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, headed for... (more)

Frosty, pre-dawn departure. The Norfolk & Western Railway's colorful J-Class Northern #611 waits with her passenger train in the yard at East Strasburg, PA, as her crew performs brake tests... (more)