V&T 18 (ex McCloud River Railroad 18) hauls what was the Carson City - Virginia City excursion train back up to VC with the Virginia Range in the background. After the train unloaded in Carson Cit... (more)

V&T 18 (ex McCloud River Railroad 18) blasts out of Tunnel 2, the American Flat tunnel on its journey to Virginia City. The tunnel was originally constructed in 1869 and was rebuilt in 2008 when t... (more)

V&T 18 (ex McCloud River Railroad 18) hauls the last Carson - Virginia City excursion for the 2021 season through American Flat, NV.

Virginia & Truckee #29. There were 27 locomotives originally built for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Nine of these locomotives survive, all of which are in museums. When Robert Gray be... (more)

The crookedest short-line in America. Just north of American Flat Tunnel, a V&T Freight runs compass south as it races toward the mining town of Gold Hill....which is visible above and dire... (more)

A time-honored tradition: The Burning of Rome. Back in the 1940s, when legendary railroad photographers Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg spent their days photographing operations on the Virgi... (more)

Virginia & Truckee No. 29 captured with a fast freight in a pan at 1/8th in Silver City, NV.

McCloud River No. 18 serves as motive power for a freight captured here at Scales just west of Silver City in American Flat, NV. At one time there were, in fact, scales located here used to weigh... (more)

Steamscape: American Flat. A Virginia & Truckee freight heads compass west with the vast expanse of desert known as American Flat as a back-drop. The run from Carson City to Virgina City ... (more)

Steamscape: American Flat. The Virginia & Truckee Railway's Virginia City Train runs north (compass west) around the horseshoe curve, above the long-abandoned mill complex known as American... (more)

Alpine Sunset at Scales. Literally minutes from losing the late afternoon sunlight over the peaks to the west, the V&T's Locomotive 29 and her pretty trainset take their last bows for the L... (more)

Climbing at Milepost 13, V&T #29 has just passed thru American Flat tunnel. The right of way it will soon traverse can be seen to the upper left of the stack.