By golly I think this is the first picture of an operating BEDT engine in the data base. There are pictures of the 13 stuffed and mounted at Strasburg, and this engine stuffed and mounted at the ... (more)

Our chartered train rounds the oft photographed curve near the Zulu village of Mjila on the rugged and never completed Cape Natal line. At first glance Garratt locomotives look strange to America... (more)

The 18 and 4960 doublehead the 1997 Grand Canyon Railway railfan weekend special at Pitt. GCR put on a good show for the fans.

Grotty weather, handsome train.

A Central American Rail Tours charter heads south on the Fegua (ex-IRCA) Pacific Division from Tecun Uman on the Mexican border to Escuintla. Interestingly, the timetable direction was north, dri... (more)

The fireman appears to have the firing valve open about as far as it will go to keep steam pressure up. This line climbs to about 13,000 feet above sea level.

The Ferrocarril Electrico al Pacifico was an electrified 42 inch gauge line that ran from the capital of San Jose to the Pacific port of Puntarenas. At San Jose it connected with the steam/diesel... (more)

The ex-SP 4449 returns from Wishram to Portland on its break-in run following restoration for the AFT.

In the late 1960's the Upper Canada Railway Society ran a number of excursions with CN 6218. This one was from Toronto to Gravenhurst (on the line to North Bay). Northbound the train traversed th... (more)

It's late in the season and winter is getting close. When this picture was taken the mainline to Alamosa had been abandoned and the Silverton branch was isolated. But it was still Rio Grande and ... (more)

Westbound from Chama enroute Durango.

Davis. At the end of Railfair 1991 at Sacramento the 4449 and 2472 doubleheaded from Sacramento to Oakland.

This might look like a rube goldberg, but in fact it is a production model of a McGiffert log loader, of which the McCloud Lumber Company had several. The McCloud's new Burney extention had just ... (more)

Nice line-up of fallen flag boxcars. B&O round top, DL&W (Route of the Phoebe Snow), Great Northern, Burlington....just about as interesting as the steam engine pulling them.

The D&S Winter Photographers Special backed into the canyon from Rockwood in order to provide new photo opportunities such as this southbound shot at High Bridge in morning light. This year's vers... (more)