Street running at Jack London Square. What amazes me are the train speeds, it is not like they creep down the street. Authorized speed for passenger trains last time I looked was 25 mph.

Hard to believe this was only five years ago.

One of Southern Pacific's magnificent cab forward articulated locomotives awaits its fate in a South San Francisco scrap yard. The tender has already been cut down to its frame, and the locomotiv... (more)

The Western Maryland Scenic can put on quite a show.

A northbound SP 4449 special takes water at the water plug at Black Butte. The SP maintained plugs at Black Butte and Wicopee for filling fire train tank cars. Both are now gone. I like how the... (more)

A northbound Upper Canada Railway Society special from Toronto to Gravenhurst with 4-8-4 CN 6218 meets the eastbound Super Continental at Washago. I understand this area is now down to a single tr... (more)

This is one of my favorite rotary shots. That is C&TS veteran Earl Knob carefully watching the progress of OY. Soon he would be starring at us through the snow trying to figure out what these idio... (more)

Following a flanger spreader train that will help clear the new snow over Cumbres, the 480 leads the regular doubleheaded Monday freight west past the Alamosa yard limits.

C&TS 489, lettered for the DRGW, slogs up the 4 percent grade toward Cumbres Pass on a cold and wet spring day. It is the second Chama train of a new season. It has been a tough day, with slick ... (more)

The UP 844 does a "runby" while in a siding waiting to be overtaken by one of the "Cities". The 844 was enroute west from Cheyenne to Ogden with a Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS special returning f... (more)

SP Track One over Donner Pass, the original Central Pacific route, dramaticaly showed what the CP was up against when it built over Donner in 1866 with hand tools and black powder. But being on a... (more)

Jake's place. A pleasant morning in Germany's Harz mountains with a recreation of a dimunitive DR freight train. And my thanks to Jake Birkinshaw for leading us to this spot.

Our reservation at the Nugget hotel in Sparks requested a room with a view of the rail yard. When we checked in the desk clerk volunteered that a higher floor would provide a better view. When w... (more)