Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 No. 33 sits inside the Age of Steam Railroad Museum roundhouse in Sugar Creek, Ohio. Sitting next to it is McCloud River 2-6-2 No. 9. There is quite a impressive n... (more)

McCloud River 19 goes through restoration at the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum in Sugarcreek, Ohio. If you haven't been to this museum, it is well worth the trip.

It's clamming season in Garibaldi as the 12pm Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad train to Rockaway Beach steams past.

A "new" locomotive for the Virginia & Truckee. Sitting on a siding just south of the old freight shed building in Gold Hill, NV is the latest steam locomotive acquisition of the rebuilt Vir... (more)

V&T 18 (ex McCloud River Railroad 18) hauls what was the Carson City - Virginia City excursion train back up to VC with the Virginia Range in the background. After the train unloaded in Carson Cit... (more)

McCloud 2-6-2 #25 steams on for the Oregon Coast Scenic Railway as it departs Garibaldi on a typical pacific northwest afternoon. Here the train is seen passing by the historic 1936 US Coast Guard... (more)

Baldwin-Palooza!

A trio of Baldwin diesels sit adjacent to the California Western Railroad’s enginehouse. CWR RS-12 56 (ex-McCloud River 33) is on the far end, coupled ... (more)

V&T 18 (ex McCloud River Railroad 18) blasts out of Tunnel 2, the American Flat tunnel on its journey to Virginia City. The tunnel was originally constructed in 1869 and was rebuilt in 2008 when t... (more)

V&T 18 (ex McCloud River Railroad 18) hauls the last Carson - Virginia City excursion for the 2021 season through American Flat, NV.

Cream and Chocolate

California’s McCloud River Railroad had incentive per diem box cars in a striking, if not unusual, paint scheme. Here one of them pauses in the yard at Allent... (more)

The McCloud River's Hill Job is arriving at the Signal Butte switchback, led by SD38 MR 38. Out of sight around the curve, SD38-2 MR 39 is shoving the rear of the train up the grade. Once the MR... (more)

The McCloud River's Sierra Job has just crossed Lake Britton, and is now crossing CA 89 on the climb away from the lake. It is returning to McCloud after switching out the big Sierra Pacific sawmi... (more)

McCloud 18 awaits another load of daisy pickers to haul up the hill to Big Canyon.

McCloud Railway's weekly train to the BNSF interchange at Lookout rolls east of McCloud. By 2001, vegetation was starting to intrude on the right of way.

Enroute to the Union Pacific interchange at Mount Shasta City, McCloud Railway's Hill Job shoves away from the Signal Butte switchback.