From Elkins, to Romney, and the New River Gorge, West Virginia is home to some of the most beautiful scenery in the United States. It's also home to some beautiful diesel-powered passenger excursions in the country. This video provides an extended look at some of those excursions. From the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley, the Potomac Eagle Scenic, and the former Autumn Colors Express. This full-length feature will make you think it's in Heaven - but it's not. It's Almost Heaven: Diesel-Powered Passenger Excursions in West Virginia

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Earlier in 2025, Reading & Northern Railroad's big 4-8-4, #2102, rambled up the Lehigh Division of the railroad for a festival in the town of Tunkhannock, up near the northern end of the railroad. On Saturday, August 23, the locomotive and train headed up that way again, this time to the town of Pittston, for their annual Tomato Festival.

Pittston is part of the route up to Tunkhannock, so this is the second trip of the year for #2102 out of Nesquehoning and up this branch of the railroad, providing another opportunity for those onboard and trackside to hear this mighty and magnificent locomotive up various grades in each direction of the trip. Similar to past trips, the train added a pair of diesel helpers (to assist in braking) for the trip downhill from the aptly-named Mountain Top to Pittston.

This is the last "Ramble" of 2025, however, there will be more opportunities to see and ride behind #2102 this fall. In the meantime, enjoy this look at "Reading & Northern's 2025 Tomato Festival Ramble: 2102 to Pittston"!

The weekend of February 18 and 19, 2023, was a pivotal time in the history of the East Broad Top Railroad. In the grand rebirth of the railroad, under new ownership, this weekend celebrated the return of steam-powered trains to the EBT. In addition to a pair of morning photo freight trains, each day had a number of passenger trains run over the line to Colgate Grove and back. This was also the first time that 2-8-2 #16 had run since 1956, it had not run during the Kovalchick tourist railroad era. The locomotive performed flawlessly during the cold weather - and everyone there was happy with how the weekend turned out. Here's a look at the steam-powered passenger trains at the 2023 East Broad Top Winter Spectacular!

On Saturday, September 21, 2025, the Friends of the Philadelphia Trolleys hosted a photo charter at the Woodstown Central Railroad, in southern New Jersey, featuring not only former US Army 0-6-0 #9 after an extended absence, but the return to service of BOTH Reading #902 and #903, FP7 units that had not run together in service in 15 years.

In this particular video, we first see #9 making numerous runbys at various locations, pulling a freight train. Then, we see both of the streamlined diesels pulling a passenger consist at many of the same locations.

There were a lot of shots not included in this video, perhaps in the future those will be shared. But for now, enjoy this look at the Return of Steam and the Reading FP7s at Woodstown!