Rotary OY with aux tender, two engines, and a caboose plows up to the summit at Cumbres.

Pete Lerro's 261 charter on the TC&W provided all kinds of creative photo opportunities, but one of my favorites was this Lucius Beebe style high speed runby type of wedgie, which shows the big 4-... (more)

A southbound BNSF train on the Gateway Sub approaches the junction with the UP at Keddie. It will use trackage rights on the UP from Keddie to Stockton.

The Jiayang Coal Railway is only 25 km long, but it passes through some very picturesque countryside. Because of lack of road access it offers a regular passenger service. Unlike other Chinese n... (more)

A chartered mixed train with the D&S 478 in drag as its former self, the DRGW 478, traverses the Highline in nice afternoon light.

A lot of people have posted pix of this Historic Transport Preservation special, so I have sorted through my pix looking for something "different". Unfortunately, I'm down to wedgies. But I like... (more)

In an earlier post I showed an eastbound BNSF train at this classic location. After waiting seemingly forever, and watching the shadows grow longer, finally we caught UP 4495 and its train headed... (more)

As the sun tries to peak through the Mexico City pollution, FCI 67 gets some attention at the San Lazaro roundhouse. It is interesting that the engine is still lettered for the Ferrocarril Intero... (more)

Dropping back 48 years from my last post! I wonder if this kind of log dumping is still done. These particular logs were hauled into Tuolumne by the three-foot gauge Shays of the West Side Lumber... (more)

Another one of those classic shots where I am standing in the foot prints of hundreds before me. Low winter sun lights up the famous Keddie trestles. A westbound UP stack train slowly pulls onto ... (more)

Saturday's sunrise shot didn't provide a lot of sun but it did provide some dramatic cloud effects. Thanks to the folks who voted for the PCA, and thanks to SRI, Historic Transport Preservation, ... (more)

C&TS 489 (masquerading as its former self DRGW 489) hauls a photo freight up the eastside of Cumbres on a sunny spring afternoon.

The daily train of mostly empty lumber cars heads north from Willits across Outlet Creek toward Eureka.

A northbound BNSF train heading for the former WP-BN "Inside Gateway" at Keddie travels east on trackage rights over the UP ex-WP Feather River line at Pulga. This shot of the two bridges (the u... (more)

The last bastion for mainline standard gauge steam in North America was Mexico. But by 1968 steam was on its last legs there as well. NdeM 3031 was a 1946 product of Alco, and she and her Alco a... (more)