On the first day of operations for the 2013 season I've posed the engine clear of the water tank for photos before backing the train up so the coaches are even with the station platform..

It's never easy to photograph narrow-gauge equipment at mid-day without getting obliterating shadows on the underframe parts of the locomotive, so when Steven the brakeman and I arrived at work th... (more)

Also the remnants of a sugar plantation 3-ft. ga. line, the Kauai Plantation Railway operates five daily trips, 40-mins. each, at Kauai on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.

During a visit up to Oakley to watch the Great Lakes Central drop off a unit grain train at Frutchey Bean company on the north end of the St. Charles branch, I was finally able to catch the GE 25-... (more)

Olin Mathieson #3 working at Saltville, VA || October 1970

Duke Power Company #50 at Draper, NC // June 1970

Natchez, Urania & Ruston #10, a GE 25-ton built with the "old" body style, seen at Urania, LA in 1973.

Tucked away among the spare parts at the Laurinburg & Southern's diesel shop in Laurinburg, North Carolina, is engine 150, a GE 25-tonner. Built in May 1943 for the Bethlehem Steel Company, it wa... (more)

"Big Red" appears quite small when coupled up to this tank car.

After living in Nitro for five years, I finally found "Big Red" the Par Industrial Park switcher. A couple years ago, while doing research on the industrial park, I found a small red switcher loca... (more)

Hawaii’s railroading beginnings are often credited to the Island of Kauai, whose first opened in 1881 on three miles of narrow-gauge track at the Kilauea Plantation to haul sugar cane. By 1915 the... (more)

While the 8 steam locomotives in Owosso stole the show at Train Fest, there was plenty of other power around including SRI's 25-ton switcher "Mighty Mouse". Here the small but mighty switcher move... (more)

Saltville RR #102 working at Saltville, March 1990.

A GE, EX BN? A want to be UBoat?

The Piedmont and Northern station in Belmont, NC housed the Piedmont Carolinas RR Museum for many years but has now turned into a dress shop. The 25T and SOU caboose were sold but have been replac... (more)