Steamy Sheepscot Morning. A cloudy, chilly winter morning finds the visiting Monson Railroad #3 emitting tall plumes of steam as she heads for the upper yard at Sheepscot to coal up for the... (more)

Wiscasset after dark. A female passenger chats briefly with the Fireman on WW&F Locomotive #9 shortly after their late-evening arrival on the platform in the seacoast village of Wiscasset, ... (more)

Checking out the product. A Quality Control Inspector from the Turner Centre Creamery performs a quick visual inspection on a shipment of raw milk from a farm up north, as he meets his comp... (more)

Number 9 "blows her nose." The crew of WW&F #9 conducts a slightly unorthodox procedure to steam-clean their engine's smokebox. Engineman Rick Sisson (center) works the cleaning... (more)

Homeward bound. SOO 1003 heads east on the WSOR toward her home in Hartford, Wisconsin, hauling just her tool car, which is cleverly disguised as a Milwaukee Road Reefer, and a SOO Line Cab... (more)

Dark-Side reflection at Beaver Dam. The dark side of the beaver pond at the west end of Beaver Dam Country Club offers the best reflection shot on the WSOR, with SOO 1003 throwing really ni... (more)

Switching Moves at Randolph. With just a reefer and caboose in tow, the big Mikado, SOO 1003 moves east toward a switch that will give her access to a long string of sand hoppers on the adj... (more)

Sunset at Fox Lake. Just a minute or two of daylight remains as a local SOO Line Freight runs eastbound across the causeway just south of Fox Lake, Wisconsin. The power this evening is the... (more)

Entering Burnett. Just a few miles north of Horicon, Wisconsin, lies the tiny hamlet of Burnett, which is home to a few hundred people and the Peachy Brothers Grain Elevator complex that cl... (more)

Crossing the Rubicon. Not the river, but a little town in Central Wisconsin. With morning clouds breaking, SOO 1003 races eastbound through little Rubicon, WI with a local freight, on her ... (more)

Waiting on the brake test. SOO 1003's Engineer looks back for a visual confirmation of a successful brake test from his Trainman as the crew assembles a freight in the yard just west of dow... (more)

One very popular excursion. Just 4 minutes after departure from Essex Depot, the Valley Railroad's 2:30 PM Santa Special has cleared the yard limit and begins to accelerate to track speed o... (more)

Sunset North Pole Express. Just a few minutes from official sunset, the first of the Valley Railroad's 5 North Pole Express Trains rumbles north across the Deep River Creek Bridge on its wa... (more)

Crossing the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River. Just a couple of miles outside Hollidaysburg, the Everett Railroad's 1 PM Santa's Express Train, behind the former Bath & Hammondsport #... (more)

One minute to go.... It's 12:59 PM and the Everett Railroad's 1 PM Santa's Express is less than 60 seconds from getting the high-ball for the run to Brookes Mill. A couple of straggling ti... (more)