The 488 with a Cumbres turn really smokes it up as it climbs the final 4 percent around Windy Point to the pass. As was normal practice, a helper is cut in ahead of the caboose in the distance. ... (more)

The small station and passing loop at Yamenmaio just north of Lindong was a favorite because the northbound passenger called here just after sunrise, and the southbound passenger just before sunse... (more)

Climbing the grade east from Durango.

Amtrak 5 in the days of F40's approaches Emigrant Gap after a fresh snow. This is single track now, although UP has plans to relay the second track someday.

Water columns were integral parts of the railway environment in steam days, and this one provides authenticy to this late afternoon scene at the beautifully preserved Western Maryland station in C... (more)

Early on a cold winter morning two engines are serviced before hauling another long train over 10,000 foot Cumbres pass to Chama. Two more engines, a flanger, and a spreader will run ahead from A... (more)

A Cumbres turn approaches the west switch to Cresco siding while climbing to Cumbres. The cars will be left at Cumbres and the engines and caboose will return to Chama. After spending another ni... (more)

In early morning light Rayonier 14, a Baldwin 2-6-6-2 compound articulated mallet, heads south from Crane Creek reload toward the tide water log dump near Hoquiam some 40 miles away. This was the ... (more)

I don't remember a whole lot about this picture, other than the car is the ex-RDG pv Henry E. Huntington at the end of a Santa Fe passenger train leaving Richmond. I believe the passengers were m... (more)

What I like about this picture are the three guys on the caboose platform. They just look like the quintessential switchmen that I worked with 50 years ago. Speaking of 50 years ago, can anyone ... (more)

The C57 were graceful little engines. It has been a long time, but I believe this is a Sasebo to Nagasaki local approaching the junction at Haiki where the branch to Sasebo joins the mainline to ... (more)

Real mainline steam railroading was coming to an end. During the last year of the JiTong Railway's steam operations, the volume of visiting railfans multiplied. Here the buses of two tour groups ... (more)

Here's something you probably won't see in Iowa!

The original VIA Rocky Mountaineer has just passed the westbound Canadian at Stephen and is headed east for its next stop at Lake Louise. You can barely see the Canadian's rear dome above the seco... (more)

As late as 1980 steam worked on at least two sugar cane plantations on Guatemala's Pacific slope. I missed the shay, but here is Palo Gordo No. 2 switches empties in the late afternoon under a gi... (more)