Progress continues at the Nevada Northern Railway as crews work diligently on locomotive 93 which is undergoing her 1472 inspection repairs at their shops. Work is about to continue again to remov... (more)
Progress continues at the Nevada Northern Railway as NNRY crew members John and Kevin remove flue tubes on locomotive 93 which is undergoing her 1472 inspection repairs at their shops. To donate t... (more)
Progress continues at the Nevada Northern Railway as crews work diligently on locomotive 93 which is undergoing her 1472 inspection repairs at their shops. To donate to this worthy cause, please v... (more)
The "other" White Pass steamer. Although the White Pass & Yukon Route currently owns 2 steam engines, you'll rarely see publicity photographs showing anything other than the nicel... (more)
Resuscitated once again from a retirement, Grand Canyon Railway No.29 shows off her heavily modified front end. Once a lowly iron ore consolidation, today, she's one of the many faces of a world ... (more)
Rio Grande 315 sits out the summer on display near the Chama depot until called upon to pull the occasional charter. She was build for the Florence and Cripple Creek in 1895 and was restored by th... (more)
Shove Em' Acting on instructions from his conductor, Engineer Steven Butler (and at the time, Steam CMO) of the San Luis and Rio Grande, backs former Lake Superior and Ishpeming (and Grand Cany... (more)
Sunset falls on Grand Canyon Railway #29 after her first run to the Grand Canyon in eight years.
Old meets new as a steam drawn passenger excursion passes a hot shot intermodal and parked mixed freight at Burnside on the Saturday trip of the weekend excursions between Lexington Kentucky and O... (more)
Tennessee Valley Railroad 610 sit quietly under a shed on this hazy Sunday evening. The last time his small locomotive was under steam was the last quarter of the 2010 excursion season. The hardes... (more)
As the sun rises on this cold hazy November morning, a small crowd of onlookers gathers getting their photos, and being caught in the mist of a daze admiring the beauty of two century old steam lo... (more)
The Tuckasseegee River excursion train led ex-Army 2-8-0 #1702 leaves the main line and enters the siding where it will stop to off load.
K153 powers past the disused water column at Echuca, with a shuttle trip to Barnes - just across the border in New South Wales. VR loco crews traditionally write messages in chalk on the smoke-box... (more)
Having arrived at her final destination, C-19 #346 takes a spin on the turntable before being put away for the evening. This is my slightly more O. Winston Link angle on the shot. Photo taken at t... (more)
Having arrived at her final destination, C-19 #346 takes a spin on the turntable before being put away for the evening. Photo taken at the night photo shoot at the Colorado Railroad Museum, dur... (more)
After making her first run to the Grand Canyon in eight years, GCRy 29 has its feedwater pump checked out by Grand Canyon Railway's Chief Mechanical Officer, Eric Hadder. Nearly twenty years into ... (more)
Sunset falls on Grand Canyon Railway #29 after her first run to the Grand Canyon in eight years. (On railroad property with permission)
Evening departure at Chama. Denver & Rio Grande Western Consolidation #315 departs the Chama yard eastbound on the evening of Thursday, August 25th, to take a cut of cars to Cumbres Pass in... (more)
The Colorado Railroad Museum located in Golden, Colorado has one of the best collections of vintage engines and rolling stock. In this shot you see the Galloping Goose #2 and the Denver Leadville... (more)
The first night photo shoot with the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad No. 1702 since the locomotive's return to service in July 2016.
The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad No. 1702 during the engine's first excursion since its $750,000 restoration. The locomotive was welcomed with warm smiles and southern hospitality as it pulled i... (more)
Just east of Whittier, 1702 steams by, in a hurry to make a ceremony for her return in Bryson City. She wouldn't make it though, over heating a bearing just a few miles away, cutting short her mai... (more)
After a hot and humid day out on the high iron, Southern 630 cools her heels over the ash pit at East Chattanooga on a warm Summer afternoon.
630 simmers at East Chattanooga between runs.
Pausing for a discussion in the yard at Ringoes.
Conductor and engineer discuss their next move in the Ringoes yard.
Southern 630 rests alongside her train on a warm Tennessee evening.
Black River & Western 60's crew proudly poses in front of the locomotive before departing for an evening full of railroading.
To those who celebrate in my RailPictures family, wishing you a very merry Christmas and happy new year! may 2021 bring epic rail photos for all who seek them out! Santa poses here with New Hop... (more)
734 does the final switching move of the day in Cumberland MD during the final photo freight by J Goodrich
NNRY 93 hisses and smokes its way out of the engine house as first light breaks over the yard at the Nevada Northern Railway.
Western Maryland 734 and crew including Rosie the Riviter pose after the April 2nd Photo Special
K190 and D3 639 set back with a motley collection of freight wagons, as R711 looks on. This year the Steamrail Victoria open weekend featured no less than 7 mainline steam locomotives in steam, as... (more)
Photo charters need preparation It can be interesting to see what goes on before a photo charter starts. Here, the former main to Maryland Jct. and points west and east is occupied by the... (more)
Angie Cracraft is the fireman for today’s run of the empty copper ore train. Angie sits on the fireman side arm rest as she pulls down on the rope to sound the locomotive bell with her right han... (more)
With the temperatures hovering just below freezing, two crew members get ready to call it a night as steam locomotive #93 and the rotary snow plow wait outside the locomotive shops before going in... (more)
One last ride. Western Maryland Consolidation #734 rides the Frostburg Turntable as the engine is turned during a Lerro Productions Freight Charter in February of 2016. The locomotive per... (more)
One Last Pull! 100-year old WMSR 734 pulls out of the yard in Ridgeley early in the morning to start what was expected to be its last day of service before its 1472-day inspection. Since t... (more)
The unsung heroes. Silently standing by day and night, ready to serve their community when the call comes, the fellows pictured here don't normally get a lot of attention. Fortunately, on t... (more)
An ore train stomps into the yard for the benefit of some delighted railfan photographers during the first day's activities of the "Winter Steam Spectacular 2016" weekend event.
The last stand of 734 on the Western Maryland Scenic.
Nevada Northern 93 and Rotary Snowplow are featured this evening for the first of two Winter Photo Freight Night Photo Shoot at the Nevada Northern Railway. Multiple high voltage studio strobes we... (more)
Both locomotives are retrieving equipment that will be used later in the day out on the Hi Line. Winter Photo Charter 2014.
The afternoon photo freight is assembled and waiting to depart.
I last saw BR&W No. 60 fifty years ago on railfan weekend with my Dad. We sampled the BR&W and the NH&I on a Saturday with the Strasburg along with George Hart's steam operation out of York PA on ... (more)
At the end of a long day, locomotive 93 brings its short freight train back into the East Ely Yard. This staged scene was part of the 2015 Winter Photo Weekend at the Nevada Northern.
Nevada Northern 93 brings a train of empties into the yard at East Ely to await their next assignment. This staged scene was part of the 2015 Winter Photo Weekend at the Nevada Northern.
For the first time in 2015, Southern 630 sits at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum with a fire in its firebox. The locomotive has sat almost the entire year inside the shop getting additonal st... (more)
Getting her ready for the day's work.
Southern 630 makes a puts on a show as it slowly rolls through Weller Yard.
Black River & Western #60 sits patiently with the consist for the day while the track is being switched so #60 can be coupled onto the opposite side of the train.
Southern Railway Ks-1 class 2-8-0 No. 630 spins on the turntable at East Chattanooga
The coal and water tower complex in the East Ely Yard is the focus of activity on this sunny, and relatively mild February morning. Two very different locomotives from the Nevada Northern ... (more)
Hull,Chelsea & wakefield steam engine on turn table,powered by human arms..
Nevada Northern Railway Museum Executive Director Mark Bassett lines the switch for the work train being pulled from the shop while #93 waits for the move. After this, #40 will pull ahead to grab ... (more)
A couple of railroaders discuss the next move while their high drivered 4-6-0 and stout 2-8-0 simmer in front of the freshly installed wig wag signals on the mild winter night.
Steam, CPL's and the Cincinnati Skyline. It doesn't get much better than that!
The Face of a workhorse
A recreation of my shot from Autumn 2020, during the Winter of 2020. New Hope & Ivyland's Pride and Joy, Consolidation #40, exits the engine house into a landscape covered by a blanket of snow.
Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 no. 608 surrounded by freight cars in the yard behind Denver Union Station in 1958. Photograph by more)
"Christmas, 1940" - Or rather Christmas 2020. This scene portrayed by NH&I 40 could pass up for a scene from the 1940s. A steam locomotive filling up with water just before she leaves wi... (more)
A night photography session at he WMSR with C&O 2-6-6-2 #1309 and WM #734.
A group shot of WMSR employees, who had taken a little time out of their day to do some period acting for a large crowd of photographers. Employees ranged from Ridgeley shop employees to WMSR tic... (more)
An WR employee (acting right now) switches the tracks at the Ridgeley, WV shop on an early fall night for a photo shoot.
C&O Railroad 2-6-6-2 #1309 sits next to WM 2-8-0 #734 and 0-6-0 #126 at the Ridgeley, WV shop on an early fall night for a photo shoot. #1309 is going through an extensive rebuild and when complet... (more)
After getting held up in Somerset for a few southbounds, NS 957 makes a mad dash back toward Lexington as it passes by the depot in Danville Yard.
The daily Cincinnati to Patio Yard local (CSX Q549) waits for signal indication out of CSX Yard Two as Southbound 957 lead by Southern RR 630 makes a spectacular exit from Gest Street Yard before ... (more)
K190 and K153 briefly pause side-by-side at Maldon during the Victorian Goldfields Railway's 'K Class Spectacular,' run in conjunction with a weekend Steamrail tour from Melbourne. All K class loc... (more)
K153 and K190 shunt a passenger consist at Maldon, shortly before departing on a double header to Castlemaine. This was part of a full day of special running on the Victorian Goldfields Railway, r... (more)
On a chilly winter morning, K153 and K190 shunt a rake of passenger cars in Maldon yard, preparing for a day of special train running on the Victorian Goldfields Railway. Both locomotives belong t... (more)
K190 steams out of the Maldon locomotive depot, prior to double heading to Castlemaine with K153 during the 'K Class Spectacular' on the Victorian Goldfields Railway. In the background, oil burner... (more)
On her first visit to Maldon since regular service, K153 steams forward while preparing for a day of special running on the Victorian Goldfields Railway with sister loco K190.
Shake and rake. With the Fireman in the cab vigorously working the grate-shaker, Engineer Soni rakes the red-hot cinders and coals from the ash pan of Locomotive 315, while Assistant Firema... (more)
The shadows are getting long and the daytime cumulus clouds are rapidly melting away, as Stock Extra 315 sidles up to the water tank in Antonito, CO for a top off, before bedding down for t... (more)
With cylinder cocks open, Southern 630 blasts out of the Bristol, VA/TN station en route to Radford, VA with the "Radford Rambler", a round trip passenger excursion operating over the Norfolk Sout... (more)
After a return from a round trip to Oneida, 630 crosses South Broadway as the Kincaid Tower and 5/3 Bank building dominates the skyline
SOU 630 is turned on the wye in RJ Corman's yard in Lexington, KY.
TVRM's former Southern Railway 2-8-0 630 leads a 21st Century Steam excursion train southbound through the historic town of Stearns, KY enroute from Lexington, KY to Oneida, TN. Stearns was once h... (more)
Water Stop at Matterhorn. In the midst of intermittent rain showers and sunny breaks, a re-creation Rio Grande Southern Doubleheader pulls into the section camp at "Matterhorn", w... (more)
Calling out The Hook. The beefy Nevada Northern Consolidation #93 withdraws the line's Steam Wrecking Crane A and its companion outfit/tool car from their home in the Machine Shop at the so... (more)
Wig-Wags! Nevada Northern's Alco #93 rumbles past one of two recently-restored Wig-Wag Crossing Signals as it enters the East Ely Yard with a hopper train. The signals guard a 3-track cros... (more)
As part of Norfolk Southern's 21st Century Steam Program, TVRM's Southern Consolidation leads the morning excursion through Dismal yard after dropping off the passengers. 066 will turn on the wye ... (more)
As part of Norfolk Southern's 21st Century Steam Program, TVRM's Southern Consolidation leads the morning excursion back through Weller Yard past a loaded coke train from Dismal, on its return run... (more)
Anthony practicing for the ballet, or could he be guiding #93 to a safe stop over the pit.
The 066 Special with the Southern 630 comes through Weller Yard on the way back to Grundy.
On a sunny saturday morning, TVRM's Southern Consolidation 630 takes off from Bristol Yard as part of Norfolk Southern's 21st Century Steam Program. This excursion, running eastbound under 060, is... (more)
SOU 630 puts on a great show departing Bristol for the crowd gathered on the Mary St bridge.
