The Movie Star poses for her close-up. Shining in the warm, California sun, Sierra #3 tip-toes off the Jamestown turntable and heads for her stall in the fabled roundhouse that has been hom... (more)

Drip....drip....drip. With his pocket watch and a small flashlight, Sierra #3 Engineer Dave Tadlock adjusts the oil feed rate on his locomotive's Detroit Lubricator. Although steam locomo... (more)

Still going strong! Still working the home rails after 116 years, Sierra Railway #3 charges through California's gold country on a Railtown 1897 excursion, with a couple of heavyweight cars... (more)

All that's left of Hooterville. Those of us who are over 50 remember the TV sitcom called Petticoat Junction (PJ). The railroad action scenes that were used in that series were all shot on... (more)

Feeding the movie star. Railtown Fireman Stephanie Tadlock swings the fueling boom into place over the oil tank in the tender of movie star locomotive Sierra #3. Although she was built as ... (more)

Aaaaaaand....ACTION! With perhaps more Hollywood movie and TV credits to her name than any other locomotive in history, the legendary Sierra Railway #3 puts on a private performance for the... (more)

The largest steam locomotive in Massachusetts is the B&M 410, a G-11-a class switcher, built in 1911 by the Manchester Locomotive Works. She worked the B&M system for several decades befor... (more)

A transfer of power. WW&F Locomotive #10 holds the shop lead as one of the museum's "Easter Eggspress" Trains arrives from Alna Center on the main line, behind Diesel Locomotive #52. In r... (more)

The Milk Man commeth.The Turner Centre Dairy Car Attendant drops off empty milk cans for local farmers as a WW&F mixed train makes a brief stop at the tiny station in Alna Center, Maine. T... (more)

Dusk meeting at Alna Center. The Road Foreman's Model T track inspection car holds the siding at Alna Center as a southbound mixed freight makes a brief station stop en route to Wiscasset, ... (more)

Morning milk run. The brakemen on the rear of the train are already winding on the hand brakes as a southbound WW&F mixed slows for a stop at tiny Alna Center Station. The presence of the ... (more)

Home sweet...machine shop. WW&F Forney #10 simmers quietly inside the museum's machine shop as Road Foreman Dana Deering and CMO Jason Lamontagne debrief Engineer Robert Longo on the day's ... (more)

Caution! Student Driver. Valley Railroad Mikado #3025 rumbles southbound across Deep River Creek with a Student Engineer at her throttle and a veteran Engineer keeping watch from the gangwa... (more)

Back yard projects. We've all got 'em. Labor-intensive and perhaps expensive jobs that will need to get done at some point. Such is the case at Connecticut's Valley Railroad. You are loo... (more)

Deep in the cut. A Valley Railroad Engineer carefully backs NH 3025 out of the rock formation known as Tate's Cut, in the town of Deep River, Connecticut. On this particular day, the locom... (more)