The last bastion for mainline standard gauge steam in North America was Mexico. But by 1968 steam was on its last legs there as well. NdeM 3031 was a 1946 product of Alco, and she and her Alco a... (more)

An earlier sunkink post reminded me of this picture. This is a sunkink on the former Western Pacific. The rail anchors here have a real challenge dealing the the expansion and contraction associa... (more)

Sunrise at Chipman Road. The clouds obscured the sun defusing the lighting, but the resulting (brief) pink sky was nice.

In another old restored Anscochrome, SP narrow gauge 4-6-0 No. 9 heads to Keeler on the very last regular use of steam on the entire SP system. Like an earlier picture of an ex-UP 0-6-0, this mod... (more)

I have enjoyed some of the other pix posted at RP of street running. So I decided to spend an afternoon capturing what to me is a fascinating local example of railroad street running in this day ... (more)

A Trains Unlimited charter sits in the siding at Glacier waiting for one of the regular trains to pass. The scenery on the White Pass is great rain or shine, but when the sun does shine it is rea... (more)

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)

I call this stretch of railroad California's hidden coast. For about 50 miles, except for the railroad itself and the station at Surf, it is isolated from public access by mountains, Vandenberg A... (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.

An SP Eugene to Ogden train heads east at Sand Pass on the former WP. It has come south via Alturas on the Modoc Line and turned east at Flanigan onto the UP to run via track rights back to the S... (more)

One of the Ipala Loops. When the International Railways of Central America (IRCA) built a line to connect Guatemala to El Salvador in the 1920's, it kept the grade over the mountains to about 2 p... (more)

A brace of North Shore steeple cabs gets ready for a days work while a CNW pushpull flies by headed for Chicago. I think this is Highwood on the North Shore but somebody more familar with the Nor... (more)

David outlives Goliath. This rather decrepit little 0-6-0 outlasted the Big Boys and Challengers. Former UP 4455 hauled limestone for the Monolith Portland Cement Company plant near Laramie unti... (more)

The Modoc line in northeastern California was probably the loneliest and most remote line in the SP system, especially in the winter. In the late afternoon a northbound train patiently sits in th... (more)

On a bitterly cold early spring day Strasburg 90 (newly acquired from the Great Western) and High Iron Company 127 (ex-CPR 1278, later of Gettysburg Railroad boiler explosion infamy...thanks for c... (more)