Heading back to the yard, the Watts Dodger local crosses the Illinois River near Watts, OK on a cloudy March 21, 2022, shortly before a thunderstorm would roll through.

The firemen for NNRY 81 & 93 help guide the locomotives under the smoke hoods of their engine house berths. The hoods help vent smoke out of the building when the engines are put away hot.

An eastbound loaded coal train has reached the bottom of the Alleghany grade at BS Cabin. Brake smoke aplenty.

"The Last One (?)

Durango and Silverton's lone remaining operable coal burner takes on some more of the fuel on what quickly became a frigid February night. As of 2022, t... (more)

Goodnight, Durango

Engine 81 emerges from her dark engine house stall into the first light of a cold Ely, NV morning.

An empty coal train heads north around a curve as it climbs the grade between Watts, OK and Siloam Springs, AR on a cloudy April 27, 2021.

What Year is It?! - Millie Edition

With a little magic courtesy of Steve Barry's smoke sticks, the Winter Spectaular's night photo session turned the clock back about seven decad... (more)

L&C Train 14 passes under the Springdale Road bridge in Lancaster.

Former N&W SD40-2 6162 leads an eastbound coal train up Elkhorn Grade, just west of the Elkhorn Tunnel, heading for Bluefield West Virginia.

With the recent news that one of the quintessential regional railroads, Montana Rail Link, would soon disappear, it made me go back and look at some of my images from my only visit to the railroad... (more)

Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's newly restored C&O H-6 "Mallet" No. 1309 (painted as WM 1309) charges upgrade through the Dakota Avenue crossing near La Vale, MD on the former WM main... (more)

With a little imagination, this could be Christmas Eve, 1957 in Rural Retreat, Virginia as O. Winston Link recorded his famous audio capturing the final days of N&W steam. The final edit of the re... (more)

No. 1309 blasts upgrade heading from Cumberland to Helmstetter's Curve. Lover's Leap on the far ridge is obscured by the plume.

Lucius Beebe would not approve of this for it is not the good ol... (more)

ATSF 5021 and ATSF 2925 sit in the roundhouse in Albuquerque awaiting their destiny. 2925 is a Baldwin 4-8-4 and both along with the whole collection of diesels were donated to the California Stat... (more)