Reading 2102's crew members Jim Cook, Shane Frederickson, and Larry Curvey await the call to depart Reading Outer Station.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1793 is seen on the west side of Raton Pass, near Lynn New Mexico, during WWII in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Stealing one at West Penn. The Reading & Northern's big T-1 Locomotive #2102 makes her charge through the tiny borough of West Penn, PA, taking her 15-car, fall colors train north toward Ji... (more)

191 on a winter's night .

EBT 16 hauls a mixed train through the Auchwick Valley during a Dynamo Productions photo charter. A red Pennsylvania Railroad Ford truck travels along Runk Road. Taken with a Nikon D60.

CNJ 113 rests in Minersville while a crew member makes repairs to a part for a night photo event.

The Connecticut Valley Line. Along much of its route, Valley Railroad trains are seldom far from water. The line runs next to the Connecticut River as well as by and over several tributarie... (more)

The Cumbres & Toltec's Holiday Express train is back after a 3 year hiatus due to COVID and equipment work. Here K-36 488 pulls a full train of families through fresh snow out onto Lobato Trestle ... (more)

Steaming home in the late afternoon.

The standard gauge Austrian steam locomotive 77 28 (4-6-2T) is charging through the Hausruck station with a passenger train.

On November 29, 2023, the crew of the Uzwil workshop of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) carried out the final work to complete the 0-8-0 T fourcylinder compound HG 4/4 # 708 cogwheel steam l... (more)

Santa Claus train

Polar Express at the Colorado Railroad Museum

The Western & Atlantic "Texas". On display at the Atlanta History Center in Buckhead, GA is one of the two surviving locomotives of a relatively insignificant Civil War incident w... (more)

Southern Pacific train 51, the San Joaquin, is seen at Bakersfield California in 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.