Spectacle at Yacolt Creek. With the morning sun highlighting her plume, Crossett Western #10 makes a rather spectacular start with her short freight, just a hundred yards or so south of the... (more)

In a cavern, in a canyon..... Crossett Western #10 exits the 300 ft long, curved tunnel near Mouton Falls, and is seen here among the dense vegetation in the rock cut that marks the approac... (more)

Misty morning in Yacolt. The early morning ground fog and mist are still burning off in the tiny Washington hamlet of Yacolt, as the crew of a Crossett Western saddle-tanker takes their loc... (more)

Fishery Point: Crossing Nehalem Bay. Belching a plume of oily smoke, the former McCloud River Railroad Locomotive #25 hauls a local mixed train across the little bridge at Fishery Point, en... (more)

Running the Nehalem River Canyon. There are relatively few tourist railroads in the US that experience radical changes in scenery along the length of their run. One well-known example is ... (more)

Bound for Salmonberry.....and very nearly there. The former McCloud River Railroad Locomotive 25 emerges from the iron bridge at the confluence of the Nehalem and Salmonberry Rivers on form... (more)

Reflecting on 90 years of faithful service in the American Northwest, McCloud Railway #25 hauls a mixed across the causeway at Smith Lake, en route to Rockaway Beach, Nedonna Beach, Wheeler... (more)

Oregon Coast Local. The former McCloud Railway Locomotive #25 passes a swampy pond adjacent to Smith Lake as she hauls a short local mixed train north on the old SP Tillamook Branch. The... (more)

A California Log-Hog in the Oregon Woods. Former log-hog McCloud #25 is right at home in the deep woods of Oregon as she hauls a mixed freight along the shore of the Nehalem River toward ... (more)

Hammering uphill at Scales. The former McCloud Railway #18 hammers uphill on the reconstructed Virginia City Line, passing the historic location of the station known as "Scales."... (more)

Comstock: MP 46.6. A V&T Freight traverses the wide, sweeping horseshoe curve at American Flat on a chilly winter afternoon, en route to its destination at Virginia City, roughly 5 rail mil... (more)

Steamscape: New Yellow Jacket Mine area. A V&T morning freight rounds the long curve north of the Yellow Jacket Tunnel, and will shortly reach more or less level track on the last mile of ... (more)

A California transplant on the new V&T. The former McCloud Railway Locomotive #18 charges out of the east portal of Tunnel #4 with a photo freight on the reconstructed Virginia & Truckee l... (more)

Doubleheader at Crown Point. V&T Locomotives #29 and 18 double-head a short freight of heavy loads past one of the most famous locations on the reconstructed Virginia City Line. You'll n... (more)

Another glorious Comstock morning. A V&T freight approaches the mining town of Gold Hill, NV on a cold winter morning in February. Although just a shadow of its former self, the town of G... (more)