UP Yellow on A Warm November Afternoon- Nothing says Union Pacific like the yellow painted cars and after a day long trip from Yuma Arizona along the former Southern Pacific Yuma Subdivi... (more)

Southern 4501 is framed along US 60 in the hills of Virginia on a Roanoke-Shenandoah excursion. Thanks to Jeff Hawkins for his assistance. See his site at Railroad: Southern Railway
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Buena Vista, Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: SOU 4501
Train ID: special
Photo Date: September 20, 1970

With the head-end passing the general store made famous in a night photo by O. Winston Link, a Southern 4501 special rolls through the siding enroute to Shenandoah with an open-air car full of con... (more)

A Southern 4501 special polishes the high iron of the ex-Virginian. Thanks to John A. Craft for help ID'ing the location and date of this run. For a view of all the action that steamy September ... (more)

A Southern steam special on the N&W crosses the James River enroute to Shenandoah. More Southern 4501 shots are seen from that steamy September 1970 at ... (more)

Hurricane Irene resulted in Amtrak's 40th Anniversary Special to make a rare detour over the NYSW route from Syracuse to Binghamton, NY on its way to the 2011 Steamtown Railfest in Scranton, PA; t... (more)

Locomotive from Jhansi shed speeding towards Daund with just 2 coach inspection special.

WMSR fireman Dan Morris cools off and checks the inside of this left hand turn for the engineer as we climb steep grade and sharp curves just west of Brush Run Tunnel. The photo was taken from t... (more)

WMSR Senior Engineer Kevin Rice along with fireman Dan Morris bring 734 into the Cumberland Station to pickup two persons who have paid to operate her today, at Helmstetter's Curve. It's 8am, and... (more)

SLRG 18 passes the line of photographers at MP 213.8

WM 151 along with the Conrail Historical Society had caboose rides to raise money for Breast Cancer during the Middletown PA Craft Faire

This is the same historic steam train that appears on this site as Photo ID: 364763 taken in the morning while climbing the Apennines, with departure from Bologna Centrale and arrive in Porretta T... (more)

Special historic train pulled by steam locomotive class 640, with six old carriages including five type "centoporte" march in the direction of Bologna Centrale pushed by an equally elderly electro... (more)

The San Bernardino Railroad Days Special returns to Los Angeles, tying up traffic on the San Bernardino Freeway as railfans pace the big Northern, which was unfortunately for the non-railfans, slo... (more)

The 261 simmers in Chicago overnight. The filming of a movie brought her into town at the time. 1.6 seconds exposure.