The East Broad Top excursion we had photographed (see yesterday’s post) wandered up to Colgate Grove and was turned on the wye.

In the interval, we went for pizza, which we consumed trackside. Soon smoke on the horizon and a distant whistle announced the returning train.

I took up a lineside position and focused both my film and digital cameras in anticipation of the locomotive coming into view.

It was exciting to see old number 16 up close and under steam. I had seen this locomotive back in the 1990s. In those days it resided in the gloom of the roundhouse at Rockhill Furnace where it had been for decades.

Now this old Baldwin narrow gauge 2-8-2 has steam in its belly again and was performing as the star of the show. No.16 looks and sounds great!

I made these photos with my Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm Nikkor Z-series zoom lens.

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