Engine No. 6 is equipped with the rare Southern Valve Gear, applied when the engine was overhauled years ago by the Southern Railway. Is it the only operable steamer with this valve gear?

When No.6 works hard, its fire will sometimes flash back for a split second (like all oil burners). Here the engine is in the corner, pulling a heavy load upgrade to the Snipe Run depot. This phot... (more)

Thrashing about, this little monster of an engine shows off her German lines as she stomps up to the depot at Snipe Run.

German tank engine No. 16 pauses at Snipe Run with the freight train consist.

There is one small bridge on the Midwest Central line; this one, built in 1961 by a volunteer track crew from the CB&Q.

No. 6 steams past two Advance Rumley steam tractors working the Old Threshers sawmill.

No. 6 steams past the ex-CB&Q depot from Hillsboro, Iowa.

No. 6 is being steamed up on a muggy August morning

Former Rio de Janiero open car 1718 stops at the former CB&Q Yarmouth Station on a warm summer evening.

Steaming away from the enginehouse.

The "wrong" side of Shay No. 9 seen at South Station with a short freight train.

Lineup of electrics outside the carbarn including (L-R) Rio De Janeiro open car No. 1718; Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Interurban No. 320; Southern Iowa wood combine No. 9; and car No. 1945 from Mila... (more)

Southern Iowa combine No. 9, built in 1909 by Barber, sits inside the carbarn at Mount Pleasant.

Ignore that motorhome in the background, and this scene looks like it could have been taken fifty years ago at the West Side Lumber Company.

Shay 9 departs North Station (Snipe Run) with a load of passengers bound for South Station. The Shay is the largest piece of steam equipment in operation during the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion,... (more)