Some people would call this a B&W, I see much more then that! Part of my Railroad: Milwaukee Road
Locomotive: Steam 4-8-4
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Locomotive #: MILW 261
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 09, 2008

Pusher Service! Now prototypical as this was not a staged scene, but rather necessary as both Strasburg's larger engines which could handle the run solo are in the shop for service. Headi... (more)

"Westbound"

Remnants of the Mighty PRR III. The PRR left it's mark along the East Coast with the several large railroad stations. One such station is Pennsylvania Station which was constructed in 1911... (more)

Reading Company Trinity:  Standing in the heart of Philadelphia, one can still find (thankfully!) the former Reading Railroad Company offices, the famous 4 track elevated Viaduct and the e... (more)

N&W #382 leads the Virginia Creeper through the rural countryside of Virginia just moments before sunrise. A scene recreated by Lerro Productions with N&W #475 dressed as the famed number three e... (more)

A good 'ol fashion runby! It's 1958 and the Nickel Plate Railroad is about to retire #765 but not without one last hurrah. Fans gather by Carland's Elevator with their Rolleiflex, ... (more)

Milwaukee Road Hiawatha: Highball Westbound!

After a nearly 4 year absence from service, the Nebraska Zephyr was back in action at the Illinois Railway Museum over the Memorial Day Weekend. Here, the slope nosed E-5 named "Silver Pilot" is ... (more)

Though an Ohio Central railroad was in existence as early as 1879, there are simply too many conflicts in the railroad time line to improvise a realistic tale of a viable and sovereign Ohio Centra... (more)

That's an open fire but there are no chestnuts roasting. No. 40 drops her fire into the ash pit after a hard days work. I've always wanted this shot and thought I'd have to wait for a charter bu... (more)

A brave Reading Company employee slips out under cover of the night prepared rescue the last of the mighty Reading T-1's from the scrapper. The opposite could not be more true as RDG #2124 was us... (more)

Spring in Michigan - a scene from years ago.

Traffic through Owosso is rather slow yet the station master is unable to finish reading the lastest 'Railroad' magazine prior to the arrival of PM #1225. Who'd have thought that many minutes lat... (more)

Canadian National 2-8-2 #3254 rounds a rock cut just before crossing Roaring Brook and entering the Nay Aug tunnel in Scranton, Pennsylvania.