The big Baldwin H-6 articulated engine nears the apex of the curve as it rumbles across the Woodcock Hollow Road crossing on a beautiful fall day.

I spent today enjoying the present-day rarity of big steam pulling a heavy train on a main line. For the westbound leg of RBMN’s fall foliage excursion featuring 4-8-4 2102, I elected not to cha... (more)

Reading & Northern 4-8-4 No. 2102 has just come to a stop in Port Clinton to pick up passengers for its 2nd last Fall Foliage Excursion of the year. For a photo of 2124 in virtually the same loca... (more)

Western Maryland 1309 creeps through the Narrrows amid the beautiful fall foliage.

Thoroughbreds in The Stable. Provenance, pedigree, original, profound. Union Pacific 4014, 844, and 3985, stable mates in the shrine in Cheyenne, WYO.

Frisco 1630 gets protected through a grade crossing as it leads a nighttime mail train.

Western Maryland 1309 works up the steep grade as it nears the end of the former Western Maryland Railway trackage on its trip to Frostburg.

Headed for Oblivion. Somewhere between Mile Markers 3 and 4, the Black Hills Central's 11:30 AM train is heading east through what's known as Palmer Gulch, with Locomotive #108 on the point... (more)

Toppa Tin Mill. Emerging from the morning shadows at the top of Tin Mill Hill, Black Hills Central Railroad Locomotive #110 blows for the 3rd crossing of Old Hill City Road near Milepost 1,... (more)

Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad 3-Truck Shay 15, built in 1913, runs an excursions train back to Fish Camp.

All is quiet in the massive, former Southern Railway Back Shop on the grounds of the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC. J-Class 2-8-0 #542 was built in 1903 by the Baldwin Locomot... (more)

Western Maryland 1309 awaits its departure from Cumberland on one of its final fall excursions for 2022.

Sanding the flues. Black Hills Central Railroad Locomotive #108 pours out a strong, salt and pepper plume as she hauls the first "1880 Train" of the day past the second crossing a... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Life Savor display train shoves back on the house track as it begins its journey to LA.

J&L 58 was built by the HK Porter Company in Pittsburgh, PA in 1937. It was used by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation at their South Side Works, also in Pittsburgh.