Climax over Leatherbark Creek. Darkening the sky like an approaching storm, the former Moore-Keppel & Co. Climax #6 charges toward the short trestle over Leatherbark Creek, just outside the... (more)

Sunrise on the Rio Grande Southern. The "sunrise" herald of the Rio Grande Southern on Locomotive #455's tender stands out in the early morning light as she crosses a small wooden trestle r... (more)

Got Alcos? In the world of tourist railroading, the White Pass & Yukon is a powerhouse. In their short, May thru September operating season, this narrow gauge railroad has run as many as 4... (more)

Anatomy of Leviathan: Authenticity vs. Practicality. David Kloke's beautiful Leviathan 63 sits on display in the North Creek Yard.

To date, the Kloke Locomotive Works has delivered two 1... (more)

Northern Central Railway, ca 1865. A Northern Central engine crew pose with their locomotive at New Freedom, PA, just a few miles north of the Mason-Dixon Line, shortly after the Confederat... (more)

The last of the Reading Camelbacks. Sitting on a storage track behind the Strasburg Railroad Shops is what's left of the last of the fabled Reading Camelbacks. Reading #1187 is an A4 Class... (more)

Cass Projects: Meadow River Shay #7. Sitting on the deadline in the Cass Yard is a little, 70-ton Shay that is missing an awful lot of parts. Were it not for the history that this machine ... (more)

The Three-Spot Lives! Were it not for a strange twist of fate, the little 10-wheeler you see here might have led a very undistinguished career for a California railroad and been scrapped 80... (more)

Mississippian #76. Tucked away on a small stub of track in the SRI Yard in Owosso, a little Consolidation waits patiently for a chance to return to the rails. Built in 1920 by the Baldwin... (more)

Nature giveth....and nature taketh away. The overgrown siding on the old C&O Durbin Branch is home to a number of pieces of ancient railroad equipment that probably should have been scrappe... (more)

Approaching Cumbres Pass. With her pops lifting and her Fireman's injector going full-blast, DRGW 453 hauls a mixed freight the last mile up the eastern approach to the 10,000 ft. Cumbres P... (more)

Waiting in the wings. As Monson Locomotive #4 retires (for the near term), the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and Museum is actively working on the next locomotive, which will power it... (more)

Reflection at Stasek Slough. Polson Logging Mikado #2 poses on the wooden trestle over Stasek Slough, on her way north from Tillamook to Garibaldi over the former SP line that is now known... (more)

A D&RGW K-28 locomotive charges southbound across the Rio de las Animas via the 1884-vintage iron truss at Tacoma, Colorado. A total of 10 of these Alco-built "sports models" were constructed fo... (more)

Passing the local at Hawley Spur. A Sumpter Valley local mixed with Heisler #3 on the point, holds the Hawley Spur west of McEwen for the passage of a hot-shot freight making the run out to... (more)