I arrived at Harriman just as the train arrived and this was a real grab shot. But it has a dramatic quality that perhaps offsets the considerable technical faults. I had taken a previous shot ar... (more)

After the filming of "Tough Guys" in the LA Basin, 4449 and its train heads home to Portland via Cajon and Tehachapi passes. Here it is on the Palmdale cutoff, somewhere west of Victorvi... (more)

At Alviso the 4449 and a short train head south toward Los Angeles for the 50th Anniversary of LAUPT.

"Through the weeds not around them". That was a parody of the DRGW's old advertising slogan, "through the Rockies not around them", dreamed up by DRGW engineer Andy Payne, probably while running ... (more)

A Brill Bullet crosses the Philadelphia and Western bridge over the Schuylkill River. Mitch Goldman recently posted a contemporary view of this bridge.

A freight climbs the hillside south of the Berguen station. A few minutes earlier it had passed through the station.

Our chartered train rounds the oft photographed curve near the Zulu village of Mjila on the rugged and never completed Cape Natal line. At first glance Garratt locomotives look strange to America... (more)

A caboose hop leaves Durango headed for Farmington. It will pick up its train at Carbon Junction, where the cars were set out the prior evening by a train from Chama. The caboose, two loaded boxca... (more)

Early morning glint at Sunol depot on a PLA/GGRM photo special. The combine behind the tender lends a lot of authenticity, since head end cars are few and far between at museums, and most passeng... (more)

It is snowing lightly as the sunrises at McEwen. Engines 3 and 19 are getting ready for a day of photo ops for Pete Lerro's winter weekend on the Sumpter.

After spending much of the second night at Sioux Lookout, reportedly due to a freight train ahead with brake problems and then our train having its own brake problems, the second morning provided ... (more)

Our Central America Rail Tours special heads out of Guatemala City across Las Vacas bridge toward Zacapa. Riding the boxcar tops across Las Vacas was more than a little exciting.

Plowing snow at Big Horn. A Steam Specials charter.

The daily "pasajero" from Puerto Barrios to Guatemala City pauses for lunch at Zacapa. This was once an express train complete with parlor car service, and the lunch room at the Hotel Ferrocarril ... (more)

A mixed train to Knysna crosses the Kaaimans River bridge. This was one of the classic photo locations back in the old days. As South African Railways rationalized their network and closed branc... (more)