The Nickle Plate Road 765 crosses Stone Rd and she muscles through the torrential downpours that would later cause her next two trips the following day to be cancelled due do massive flooding of t... (more)

Steaming through Scranton. Baldwin Locomotive Works 0-6-0 locomotive 26 is steaming through the Scranton Railyard with a North Pole Limited excursion.

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)

Pere Marquette 1225 leads the Cadillac limited on the curve into Marion

A "Garden State in 88" NRHS Convention Special with the NKP 765 visiting the Blue Mountain & Reading, affording a rare opportunity to compare a Lima Superpower 2-8-4 Berkshire with a Baldwin 4-6-2... (more)

Shunting at Jingpeng station brought "old" and "new" together. While the diesel locomotive of the DF8B class will surely still be in service today, the QJ steam locomotives has... (more)

Nickel Plate Roads. While the 2024 RailFest weekend at Steamtown featured a special Nickel Plate Road reunion, so did 2015. On September 5, 2015, long term Steamtown resident Nickel Plate R... (more)

Nickel Plate Road 765 crew members Jeff and Austin Rayner clean the locomotive's drivers and running gear prior to its departure from Edon.

Nickel Plate Road 765 charges towards Angola with its passenger train on a sunny June afternoon.

33-248, one of the last Kriegsloks in regular service in Bosnia leaving Dubrave mine with a coal train

There Goes The Last DJ...

The last hurrah for coal burning on the Durango and Silverton as K-36, #481 takes charge of the 2024 Winter Photographer's Train for what will be the ... (more)

The 1218 is northbound on the Shenandoah Valley Line on a circle trip from Roanoke to Balcony Falls on the C&O, down the James River Line to Lynchburg, and back to Roanoke over Blue Ridge. The Cl... (more)

East Broad Top 16 rolls across the Long Fill on a hot and sunny August afternoon.

A freight train to Asmara is leaving the Nefasit station.

SP train 26, The Owl, is at Glendale California in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.