This is about the closest one can come to replicating what it once was like meeting an inbound train to Jim Thorpe from aboard an outbound train. The second bridge over the beautiful Lehigh River ... (more)

This dome car is under restoration in the yard at Star. If you have anything you'd like to add about the car's history please feel free to comment, as I have no clue!

A few miles north of Moorefield, passengers relax by the South Branch of the Potomac and enjoy the sights or take a few pictures of their train as it crosses the Sycamore Bridge. The South Branch ... (more)

The roar of 567's fills the Cheat River Gorge.

There are just two options in NC when it comes to standard gauge steam: both are 0-4-0's operating a few days a year on landlocked lines. The most obscure option is the Denton Farm Park's attracti... (more)

In a steady downpour, a log train backs toward the upper switchback at the base of the 8.7% S-curve which daily taxes Cass crews to their max. Note the brakeman on the flatcar adjusting the handbr... (more)

One of the original Pickens Baldwin diesels now serves as a rather rusty billboard at the end of the line in the little RR's hometown with the RR office sporting some equally rusty signage nearby.... (more)

K-37 #498 sits forlorn in the back of the Durango yard with no current plans for operation. It is one of several out of service K-37s throughout the state. #491 at the Colorado RR Museum in Golden... (more)

The vast flat coastal farmland stretches out in all directions as a tiny local rocks and rolls out the 'Coastal's Belhaven branch on old overgrown trackage with 2 cars of lime headed for farmers a... (more)

Here's a loco new to RP. USA side tank 5012 (often referred as Bonsal 7) rests on blocks near the Spencer roundhouse. There were plans to restore this loco before 604 & 1925 were withdrawn from s... (more)

Spanning the Holston River in an impressive curved trestle, the N&W's old Creeper ROW now hosts thousands of cyclists every year as it meanders through the VA foothills.

Scenes like this were common in small communities all along 425's Tunkhannock to Jim Thorpe run. Local residents either knew ahead of time, saw a crowd of railfans gathering, or simply heard 425's... (more)

SOU 630 puts on a great show departing Bristol for the crowd gathered on the Mary St bridge.

More than the eye can take in! This air brake instruction car was originally built as a Railway Post Office car in 1910 then converted to its present form in 1928. This incredibly complex piece of... (more)

The Tweetsie crew poses in the evening with the engines, the only operating steam in NC recently.