After two days of overcast or rainy weather, the Reading and Northern’s former Reading 4-8-4 2102 had its day in the sun. Here it approaches Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, where it will pause while... (more)

Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449 bore Lima Locomotive Company builders plate #7817; her sister engine #4447, also a two-cylinder Northern-type coupled here behind her, carried the diamond Lima plate #... (more)

After a multi-year, multi-million dollar restoration, the fruit of the R&N steam crews hard work comes to bear as the big T-1 simmers at Outer Station.

It Lives

The Reading and Northern put former Reading 4-8-4 2102 through its paces on a break-in run between Port Clinton and Tuckerton, Pennsylvania yesterday. I had to work in the... (more)

On April 6, the former Reading turned Reading & Northern T-1 4-8-4 2102 was taken back out on the mainline for the first time in 31 years. After more than 3 decades of napping, owner Andy Muller ... (more)

Following a day of break-in runs, the Reading T-1 4-8-4 2102, now RBMN, gets some evening TLC at the Port Clinton, PA Steam Shops after a 31-year nap.

In the early light of day, a Blue Mountain & Reading Temple – Harrisburg glides over the Schuylkill River on Conrail’s Lebanon Valley Line at Reading, Pennsylvania. The long girder bridge shar... (more)

A Blue Mountain & Reading Temple – Harrisburg excursion is just under way at Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania. For reasons that I don’t recall, the train avoided the Reading Belt line and inst... (more)

After a successful round trip to Philadelphia, Reading 4-8-4 2102 backs the Blue Mountain & Reading excursion toward home rails at Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania. The connection between Conrailâ... (more)

With the Neversink Mountain as a backdrop, Reading 4-8-4 2102 rolls a Temple – Philadelphia excursion west at Klapperthal Junction, Pennsylvania. This track is a connector between the former Rea... (more)

Looking right at home, Reading 4-8-4 2102 leads the return leg of a Reading – Philadelphia excursion west at Colebrookdale Junction, Pennsylvania. Seen above and left of the big Northern is the ... (more)

Iron horse meets real horse at a farm in Marshall, VA, during a Manassas-Front Royal excursion.

It's a pity that such a spectacular machine can only come back to life through photographs of the Quinta Normal's visitors. Locomotive 1009 is the only survivor of the 10 type 100 that arrived to ... (more)

Norfolk and Western J 611 is westbound with a short freight train between Atlanta and Birmingham. The bridge over the Tallapoosa River is just a short distance from the Alabama-Georgia border .