Meet at White Pass siding. If I remember correctly the international border is behind me not very far. Any viewers have a model number for the GE diesels? Somewhere I have pictures of similar uni... (more)

Looping the loop as seen from the hill in the middle.

The Cal Northern hauler from Willits approaching the Napa River bridge on the former SP Schellville branch.

This winter is rumored to be the last for China's two remaining 76 cm gauge logging railways because they are running out of logs due to overcutting. Both are normally dieselized, but the SuiLeng... (more)

The NWP (SP) Budd car heads south from Eureka to Willits on its tri-weekly roundtrip through the scenic Eel River canyon.

The 73 storms by with a Skagway Express while the 40 waits patiently in the siding with a local freight. Well, not really, but it looks that way in this Trains Unlimited photo runby.

Patagonia is a world of wide open spaces with the snow capped Andes as a dramatic backdrop. The 76 cm gauge passenger train (with diner) is on the last leg of its tri-weekly journey to remote Esq... (more)

Empty "up" train crosses River Bridge during the last year of WSL's rail operation. Photoshop was able to restore this image from a faded overexposed very grainy Anscochrome original.

An eastbound VIA Canadian approaches the summit of Kicking Horse Pass.

Carlos Llamas and the 487 had spent the day hauling passengers, so when it came time to dump ballast west of Antonito the sun was getting low.

The 4449 with the New Orleans Worlds Fair Daylight departs San Francisco on the original route of the Coast Daylights for which it was built. Note in the background the "little boxes on the hillsi... (more)

In late afternoon twilight helpers drift down the siding between Tunnel 41 and Norden. I think this was my last picture of the SP before the UP took over.

Hauling empties over the hill to Lixin. The little 76 cm. guage 0-8-0's put on a good show. This is a former forestry railway that now hauls coal.

No water tanks on this Romanian forestry railway. The wood fired engines just pull up to a pond or stream and pump the water up through a hose. And it still happens on a regular basis in 2006!

Some days just nothing goes right.