It is probably safe to say that little Alma Michigan has never seen such a gorgeous (or big 16' 4" tall 10' wide 110' 2 1/4 '' long) steam locomotive before. It is also safe for everyone since th... (more)

Get your Lima horsepower right here! (With a "Little" Baldwin on the side.) Train Festival 2009's first night photo session with Little River 110, Pere Marquette 1225, Southern Pacific 4449, and N... (more)

Lima black in a sea of EMD blue. Here we see NKP 765 get ready to depart on a 1988 NRHS Convention excursion from Bound Brook NJ to Temple PA. There the conventioneers will be able to ride behind ... (more)

Boston & Maine 494 stares down the upstart diesel that dares to disturb it's slumber. Unlike many other display engines, it is under shelter and cared for. Ironically 494, a lovely 4-4-0 built by ... (more)

Washington County Railroad 202 takes a rest by a the tiny building that is the passenger ticket kiosk for the Green Mountain Railway in White River Junction. My second diesel shot in as many days;... (more)

Waumbek MWCR No. 9 does what it has done for over a hundred years, taking happy tourists to the top of the highest mountain in all of New England, 6288' Mt. Washington. While transversing Long Tre... (more)

Alex the brakeman gives us a friendly smile as the WAJO NANATASIS, the "Cog's" first diesel shoves it's lone car up Mt. Washington. The sound it makes at all times is one of a great big fan. If yo... (more)

MWCR No. 2 Ammonoosuc on Jacob's Ladder. Here is the culmination of a 50 year wish full-filled. As a child, I vowed to see this one day. I always knew it to be one of the only 100% steam railways ... (more)

MWCR No. 9, "Waumbek" battling a grade that has reached 37%, is above Long Trestle and about to reach the "Homestretch Flats", "flats" being a relative term. You can see why Mt. Washington is also... (more)

Ammonoosuc MWCR No.2 creates her share of what the hikers call "cog smog." The thing is, she has been doing so since, (I believe) the 1880's!

Hawaiian Railway No. 5 gets to run up and down her 2000' of mainline only twice a year at the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association. You owe it to yourself to go see this pretty little filly.... (more)

Hawaiian Railway No. 5 gets to stretch her legs only twice a year at the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association. I was stunned to learn that a beautiful 3 foot gauger was alive and in Connect... (more)

This bedraggled Jeep caught my eye. Younger than Hawaiian Railway No. 5, it sure could use some of the same love attended to all the fine machinery across the track at the Connecticut Antique Mach... (more)

The young man in the engineer bib is one of the hobby's biggest steam fans; I've seen him and his father at many a steam event in the east. The object of his attention is No. 5, who only gets to s... (more)

It is January 1958 and steam is dead almost everywhere; except here on the CNR! I've got a Leica, Kodak Panatomic-X and I am not too late! Actually I was a child in long ago '58 with no knowledge ... (more)