My daughter Anna (11) takes a new Super Huskie for a spin on a crisp Fall morning.

Engine 16 is ready for a (cold) night run on the Lost Pond Railroad.

Engine #400, with the safeties popping, is ready to steam up the hill for the last time of the season

Taken in 1991, here I am running the Shay that my dad bought.

John Buckwalter's Mogul holds on Track 2 during the Grand Scale Convention while John Wood's Northern passes on Track 1.

Nana chases 4-year-old Sam along the rails at the Pacific Bill and Jamie Railroad (PB&JRR), August 2006

4-year-old Sam gets his first railroad engineering lesson at the Pacific Bill and Jamie Railroad (PB&JRR).

The locomotive is nearly lost in the steam at the Bitter Creek Western Railroad.

The Quail Valley No. 1 gets an early start on a foggy morning at the Bitter Creek Western Railroad.

Here is a PRR FA-2 shoving hard on the rear of a long freight somewhere in Pennsylvania. The caboose is a scratch built model; the FA-2 is a detailed Rail Systems model. The picture was taken on the Northeastern Ohio Live Steamers track in Lester, Ohio.