The Durango Railroad Historical Society's restored DRGW 315 climbs Cumbres Pass with a short train. The Chama and Wolf Creek valleys are in the background. The location is actually in Colorado, ... (more)

In my mind the former British Columbia Railway mile for mile is the most scenic railroad in North America. Between Howe Sound, Cheakamus gorge, Seton Lakes, and the climb out of the Fraser River ... (more)

This Illini Railroad Club special operated to Savanna via Denrock doubleheaded with the 4960 and 5632, and returned via the mainline with only the 5632. I was just passing though Chicago when I n... (more)

From Pete Lerro's fine charter last January. While it's great that Barlett still has a trainorder signal, somehow it seems it should show red rather than green given the direction of the train. B... (more)

The Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios passenger departs Sanarate. Only a few years prior this train would have been diesel hauled, but a shortage of cash for imported diesel spares forced first th... (more)

After waiting hours for a hopefully dramatic late afternoon view of a working uphill train and getting skunked, we were about to board our vans to leave when all of a sudden we heard the clank cla... (more)

Switching at 11,000 feet. The C&S local on the Climax branch from Leadville switches the molybdenum mine at Climax. As noted in an earlier post this was the last standard gauge Class 1 steam ope... (more)

The eastbound daily passenger accelerates out of the station at Yamenmiao.

Doubleheading from Alamosa to Antonito. At Antonito both engines will take coal and water, and the helper will be cut into the train for the climb to Cumbres. It will be long after dark and prob... (more)

REAL BN green! The rear helpers are in dynamic as a westbound loaded grain train slowly begins its descent down Marias Pass toward Essex. Even in June fresh snow decorates the mountain peaks.

A Tiefa Coal Mine Administration train of loads heads through the southeast quadrant of the junction at Sanjiazi enroute the connection with China Rail at Daqing. The SY pictured was part of a fle... (more)

There is nothing dramatic about this picture, so what I believe appeals to me about it is it recreates the ambience of branch line steam railroading about anywhere along the Pacific Coast from Ore... (more)

It is still early in the morning as EF Dona Teresa Christina (EFDTC) 1950 built Baldwin 2-6-6-2 No. 204 waits for its train to be loaded, while Lauro Mueller Mine 26 4-6-0 Alco 1920 shunts cars on... (more)

During a brief water stop at Palin during a charter on the Ferrocarriles de Guatemala (ex-IRCA) we discovered the section foreman had left one of these wonderful contraptions parked at the station... (more)

C&S 641 takes coal before going to work on the C&S Climax branch.