C&S 641 backs into town to pickup its train for Climax on an absolutely glorious winter day in the Arkansas River Valley. In the background are several peaks that exceed 14,000 feet. I think one... (more)

I believe this is the train to Charlottetown, PEI via the ferry waiting to depart Moncton. I had arrived shortly before on the Budd car from Saint John, and was waiting to catch the Ocean to Mont... (more)

The UP 844 does a "runby" while in a siding waiting to be overtaken by one of the "Cities". The 844 was enroute west from Cheyenne to Ogden with a Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS special returning f... (more)

Notice the flowers and lawn around the neatly kept white UP station at the end of the lonely Victor branch. Served by just a mixed train when I visited, only a year earlier there had been seasona... (more)

Another old Anscochrome saved by Photoshop. The headbrakeman takes water prior to the Farmington turn leaving Farmington for Durango. The Farmington tank was notorious for bad water, but apparent... (more)

An earlier sunkink post reminded me of this picture. This is a sunkink on the former Western Pacific. The rail anchors here have a real challenge dealing the the expansion and contraction associa... (more)

Rotary OY with aux tender, two engines, and a caboose plows up to the summit at Cumbres.

Pinky Lynton takes water at Bondad. Pinky was an engineer on the Rio Grande Southern. When the RGS abandoned in 1951 he went to the DRGW. Pinky was a qualified engineer but he was uncomfortable... (more)

Southbound at North Philly.

The Eureka Southern was one of the more colorful and scenic shortlines in California during its all too short life trying to operate the north end of the former NWP.

A southbound train of lumber rumbles down the 2.2 percent grade through the spectacular Cheakamus canyon.

Union Pacific's Joso bridge is 194 feet over the water and 3920 feet long. In the distance matched BNSF warbonnets are on a run through coal train.

The temps are way below freezing during the night, steam engines tend to drip, ice forms, and the result by early morning is an engine solidly frozen to the rails. So the hostler burns some oil s... (more)

Lots of interesting old time detail in this grab shot. I was a passenger on the train going to New York.

The Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios passenger departs Sanarate. Only a few years prior this train would have been diesel hauled, but a shortage of cash for imported diesel spares forced first th... (more)