Nevada Northern's venerable workhorse Consolidation #93 - here lettered for Kennecott Copper Company - is shrouded in steam as it pulls out of the engine house and prepares for the day's work. Ne... (more)

As the sun sets, Nevada Northern Alco RS-3 #109 and Alco RS-2 #105 lead a string of empty ore cars out of the East Ely yard headed for the mine at Ruth. 2020 Nevada Northern winter photo spectacu... (more)

UP 7378 crossing the Truckee River across a steel truss with a date of 1902 on it

Western Pacific's CCVX is seen here crossing the Humboldt River at the abandoned townsite of Palisade, Nevada. This location in Palisade Canyon was the northern end of the narrow gauge Eureka and... (more)

UP 3996 leads a local across the 1902 built steel truss crossing the Truckee River in Patrick

Queen of the Short Lines......proclaims the crest on V&T Caboose 25, as her short freight makes its way across the Crown Point Fill, just prior to stopping at Gold Hill Station. The Virgini... (more)

A little late-day glint at Donovan. We're just a few minutes from alpine sunset and barely 200 yards north of Donovan siding as we watch a V&T freight powering its way up the average 2.2% g... (more)

The V&T Steam Line-Up. During our 2020 Lerro Productions Charter on the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, we were fortunate to be able to get a quick look at both of the line's steam engines tog... (more)

Virginia & Truckee #29. There were 27 locomotives originally built for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Nine of these locomotives survive, all of which are in museums. When Robert Gray be... (more)

The crookedest short-line in America. Just north of American Flat Tunnel, a V&T Freight runs compass south as it races toward the mining town of Gold Hill....which is visible above and dire... (more)

Steamscape: Crown Point. The reconstructed Virginia & Truckee Railroad is one of my favorite steam operations in all of the US. Why? Well, because it is one of the few places where you c... (more)

Tunnel #4: The "Yellow Jacket' Tunnel. V&T Locomotive #29 bursts out of the East Portal of Tunnel #4, known on the original V&T as the "Yellow Jacket Tunnel", as she runs th... (more)

Long shadows at Donovan. The alpine sunset is fast-approaching and the afternoon shadows are getting very long as V&T Locomotive #29 takes a freight north past Donovan, en route to Gold Hil... (more)

Steamscape: Crown Point Fill. V&T Locomotive #29 charges north with her freight across the wide-open plateau that is the Crown Point Fill. The geography in the town of Gold Hill, NV has bee... (more)