A brace of North Shore steeple cabs gets ready for a days work while a CNW pushpull flies by headed for Chicago. This is Pettibone yard just north of the Great Lakes stop on the Skokie Valley lin... (more)
David outlives Goliath. This rather decrepit little 0-6-0 outlasted the Big Boys and Challengers. Former UP 4455 hauled limestone for the Monolith Portland Cement Company plant near Laramie unti... (more)
The Modoc line in northeastern California was probably the loneliest and most remote line in the SP system, especially in the winter. In the late afternoon a northbound train patiently sits in th... (more)
On a bitterly cold early spring day Strasburg 90 (newly acquired from the Great Western) and High Iron Company 127 (ex-CPR 1278, later of Gettysburg Railroad boiler explosion infamy...thanks for c... (more)