It's late afternoon and the sun is beginning to set, as the sound of a heavy coal drag begins permeating the quaint valley of Elkhorn, W.Va. Soon, No. 826 crawls around a tight curve as the train ... (more)

Rocking the diesel plume! Two vintage vehicles, which would you rather own?

For all my images from the charter, go Railroad: Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: Romney, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: BO 6604
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: March 23, 2013

Rise and shine!  It's the start of a new day at the Strasburg Rail Road. No charter, no photo lines, just another day in August as the crew prepares #475, former N&W, to pick up a... (more)

Union Pacific 3985 begins a photo run-by at Point of the Mountains, Utah. UP 3985 was still burning coal, and on this trip, set many brush fires between Salt Lake City and Provo. After this trip a... (more)

Spectacular parallel journey of two steam trains on the ramp of the Schwarzwaldbahn (Black Forest line)between Hausach and Hornberg on a grade of about 1.8 %. "Our" train was pulled by 52 7596 of ... (more)

Storming out of Alamosa, Colorado, a San Luis and Rio Grande train heads east at sunrise on September 20, 2007. The photo freight is led by former Southern Pacific 2-6-0 No. 1744.

Climbing out of Alamosa, Colorado, in the expansive San Luis Valley, a San Luis and Rio Grande eastbound pulled by 2-6-0 No. 1744, heads into a golden sunrise on September 20, 2007. The train will... (more)

RHDR loco No7 'Typhoon' near Pilot Crossing on 2nd Febraury 2009 after a rare settling of snow on the marshes.

A Western Maryland freight makes an early departure out of Cumberland and thunders Westbound through the Narrows towards Frostburg on a blistery cold morning.

Majestic! That was about the only word I could come up with to describe this extraordinary scene of a steam-powered rotary snow plow and two pusher engines going full tilt in the pristine ... (more)

Here, we see W&W 58 fighting the grade into Wooddale, Delaware. This cut is basically a tunnel without a roof and is a very tight fit. Hopefully they don't have to butter up the train.

CN #3254 powers through the grade departing Scranton, PA.

More B&W Railroad: Canadian National Railway
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: CN 3254
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: October 18, 2008

Renishaw heads back to Andrews House station with the third train of the day

I never made it to Cheyenne WO to see the Big Boy in it's lair. But I think this is something like what I would have found after a new snow storm in January 1958.

The man in charge of the Ice Festival looks up from his labors as No. 3254 goes by on the high fill above Tobyhanna PA's Millpond No. 1. (Mark, this one is for you.)