A Puerto Barrios bound train departs Guatemala City over the impressive "Viaduct of the Cows", the highest and longest bridge of the many impressive bridges on the scenic three foot gauge former I... (more)

The GF class Garratt shown here has a quaint "victorian" look, compared to the business-like appearance of the bigger more modern GMAM's. But either one is an impressive machine, and we were fort... (more)

SP's one and only E8 heads train No. 99, the Coast Daylight, through Burlingame at something close to 79 mph. Well, after checking some special instructions maybe it was only 70 mph. But it was fa... (more)

Remember marker lamps?

The phone rang far earlier than I had expected to notify me about our "stealth" departure from Williams. But that o-dark-thirty departure provided a bunch of us with this desert sunrise silhouett... (more)

A freight climbs the far mountain side having left Tolar Grande upon the arrival of our very late passenger train. This scene is at about 14,000 feet above sea level on the northern trans-Andino ... (more)

This might look like a rube goldberg, but in fact it is a production model of a McGiffert log loader, of which the McCloud Lumber Company had several. The McCloud's new Burney extention had just ... (more)

NN 93 approaches the end of track at the concentrator at Riepetown.

The most remarkable thing about this photograph is that it was taken only two weeks ago. The last "heritage" Budd stainless steel dome equipped "streamliner" approaches Capreol during the final a... (more)

Since this picture was taken the Jiayang Coal Railway has become something of a tourist attraction. But it remains a "real" railroad hauling coal, bricks, not to mention local people and their liv... (more)

The RhB Bernina Pass line runs through some surprisingly remote and lonely country. A one car train pauses to enter the siding at Ospizio Bernina on a gloriously clear winter day.

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 ex-SP Mina Branch, which the UP still calls the Mina sub even though it no longer goes anywhere near Mina, is for the most part a lonely and desolate operation. The south end of the line is n... (more)

This image is from Pete Lerro's great 261 charter on the Twin Cities & Western with this perfectly matched MILW consist. I like this picture but the smoke is all wrong. There was a 10 mph track r... (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)