The New Brunswick Southern Railway local from McAdam switches the border interchange at Milltown Junction. The 9801 is lettered for the Maine Northern, another member of the Irvine family of railr... (more)

No. 19 high balls through McEwen and looks bound and determined to make it to Baker City for the first time in 67 years. Eric Wunz, the engineer, claims "we were doing the yard speed limit of... (more)

Shortly before sunrise the 489 and a work train make a photo runby at Lava. In the background the San Luis Valley is covered by fog with a few hill tops looking like islands. Our train was heade... (more)

A small segment of SN electrification lasted until 1965 for switching around Marysville and Yuba City. All this trackage is gone now, including the connection into Marysville. The 653 is now at th... (more)

The snow flies and Engineer Max Casias watches intently as he makes another plunge into the deep snow drift, much as the DRGW might have cleared the line 60 years ago. It took five or six such pl... (more)

Back in the days when the G&Q still hauled freight. Unfortunately I have forgotten where this was taken. It is interesting that the 44 was painted red because traditionally the G&Q painted the b... (more)

Winter morning on the Sumpter. A Lerro charter, and as usual he got us up way earlier than we wanted to get up, but it was worth it.

On a tour organized by David Rogers, 15F (SAR 3016) and 25NC (SAR 3472) doublehead a special train south from Bethlehem on what was once a secondary mainline to Bloemfontain, but now is a stub end... (more)

I believe this is the train to Charlottetown, PEI via the ferry waiting to depart Moncton. I had arrived shortly before on the Budd car from Saint John, and was waiting to catch the Ocean to Mont... (more)

Rotary OY approaches Coxo crossing below Windy Point. The snow is not very deep here, but deeper drifts lay ahead on Cumbres pass.

Westbound around Los Pinos loop. In the old days this used to be a really dramatic location with a sweeping curve in a beautiful mountain meadow, but these days unless you want a number of rather... (more)

This image is a bit of an experiment. This is just a very small portion of the full frame (thus some noise), and not the image I was trying to get. But the distant mountains looked nice, as did ... (more)

The lighting was changing continuously, and this was a grab shot. The original image is much more backlit. The painting-like "lighting" reflects some heavy handed use of Photoshop to lighten the ... (more)

Winter eruption. I've never seen a plume quite this dramatic. Needless to say, it was cold. A Pete Lerro charter.

Large arched roof train sheds such as this are common in Europe, but the only ones I can think of in the U.S. are Reading Terminal and St. Louis Union Terminal. Can anyone name others in the U.S.... (more)