My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)
SP train 70, The Coaster, is on the move near Glendale California at 40 MPH, with 13 cars, in 1940. Otto's trusty 1935 Ford V-8 sedan is visible at left. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collectio... (more)
"Station Stop! - Tamaqua, Mahanoy City, Shamokin and all points north!" Reading & Northern #2102 stops at Port Clinton on the morning of October 14, 2023 as she boards additional passeng... (more)
Thundering north past former Reading Railroad telegraph poles, Reading & Northern T1 #2102 thunders through Barnesville, PA as engineman Shane Frederickson mans the left hand seat on October 14, 2... (more)
My father had a LP record called "Valley of the Steam Locomotives", which featured different NdeM steam locomotives. Sometimes when mom and my sisters were out of the house for a while, my dad wou... (more)