Putting the "Steam" in Steamtown: Having only visited Steamtown once before in August of last year - during a week when Baldwin No. 26 was out for servicing - I had not yet encoun... (more)

Honorary Steam: As an "honorary" steam locomotive, one could argue that an Alco PA is right at home in Steamtown. Add in the fact that this particular unit used to frequent the Sc... (more)

After completing the second run of the new Evening Ridge Runner, Southern 4501 sits in front of Grand Junction with the 9:15pm train dropping off passengers before turning around on the wye to hea... (more)

"Cité du Train" railway museum in Mulhouse: 2-4-2 steamlocomotive 121 A # 340 of the Paris-Orléans Railway (PO), type Forquenot, built by Sharp, Stewart & Co Limited (Atlas Works) in M... (more)

The two Nevada Northern Railway steamers #40 and #93 are resting outside the Ely loco shed.

Early morning departure from the Heber City station. UP #618 is hauling a David Rodgers freight charter train.

The 4-8-2 class 241 P vehicles of the French state railroad Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) were the last Mountain locomotives (wheel arrangement 2'D1', French 241) built i... (more)

East Broad Top 16 rolls southward, passing by a patch of springtime flowers in bloom.

TTDA Mallet on the way back from Villiers to Longueville

The Day 2926 Escaped The Gate. May 6, 2023, will go down in history as the day that Santa Fe 2926 officially "escaped the gate," a phrase coined by the New Mexico Steam Locomotive... (more)

The headlight of Santa Fe 2926 rests at dim as the locomotive sits on display at the 4th Street grade crossing, located on Rio Metro Regional Transit District's "Sawmill Spur." In a few ... (more)

Santa Fe 2926 poses atop the 4th Street grade crossing while on hot display during a fundraising event. The move of the locomotive on this day marked the first time 2926 moved out of its restorati... (more)

Southern Railway 4501 is on the point of a passeger special waiting to depart the Tenneessee Valley Railroad Museum in 2014.

The 4501 is a 2-8-2 Mikado-type steam locomotive built in ... (more)

Getting Some Sun. Hawaii Railway 2-4-2 locomotive no. 5 (Baldwin, 1925) is seen outside its storage barn at the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association during their Spring Power-Up ev... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)