Built in 1915 by Jung, Pabrik Gula Pangkah 1-spot simmers outside the mill's engine shed.

1067 mm gauge 0-10-0T "Bahagia" (Road number "B") gets some attention prior to a charter trip on the remnants of the Cepu Forestry Railway, formerly used in the harvest of teak forests in Java.

A rare survivor is this Orenstein & Koppel geared locomotive from 1916. It was in steam during this year's sugar harvest and shortly after the picture was take, the photographer was invited to dr... (more)

Through the smoke of a deliberately set cane field fire comes a 1912 built Orenstein & Koppel, Olean Sugar Mill's #1. Olean is one of the few sites in Java where cane is loaded directly onto cane... (more)

Ambarawa Railway Museum's E1060 was the last main line steam locomotive built in Germany, being outshopped by Esslingen in 1966. It has spent more years in retirement than it did in active servic... (more)

Five steam locos, including one on a short pasenger train descending into the pit from the surface, and four electric shovels, are visible in this panorama of the huge open cast mine at Jalainur.

Another short train of empties heads for a deep level in this mine which has operated in all weather for more than a hundred years.

CN's 1954 "Super Continental" came even closer to perfection with the addition of the ex-MILW domes. How nice to see a train where everything matches. Here the "Super" treads lightly through Sa... (more)

Nevada Northern's 40 is a tidy ten-wheeler but the star of this show has to be 1872-built outfit car 06, on one of its first outings since shopping in early 2007.

Passenger train leaves East Ely and heads up the line leading to the old mines at Ruth

An SY Mikado bats cars back and forth on the yard tracks but the real interest has to be the cauldron car receiving its fiery lading in a dark corner of the huge steel complex in Anshan. As a rar... (more)

A pair of QJ's steam literally and figuratively into the sunset on a fast-moving freight. There were two minutes of daylight left in the deep valley, and less than two years of steam on the reve... (more)

Steam completely envelopes the train engine as a pair of QJ's blast out of Tunnel 4 on the long slog up to Jingpeng Pass.

Steam locos and camels both need water; there is precious little of it in Eritrea--the camels get to drink from this unusual stream though the loco got its thirst quenched from a tanker truck.

Early spring sunshine on a photo freight. Is it 1937 or 2007?