After almost an hour in Kellogg repairing the power reverser bolt, 6988 highballs west towards Newton where they will tie down for the night before their trip to South Amana and return the next da... (more)

As a pop up thunderstorm passes to the east, Iowa Interstate 6988 has completed its first maintenance run between Kellogg and Newton as it pulls into the yard so the crew can make some adjustments... (more)

Iowa Interstate 6988 turns its wheels for the first time in 2 years after some time in storage due to COVID. The hard working crew has just finished putting the locomotive back together for upcomi... (more)

There is a tradition in Russia to launch victory steam trains on the day of victory in World War II. In this year such trains have traveled throughout the all vast Russia. This retro train (on th... (more)

Express train early morning stopped at Daban on the way to Tongliao

IAIS 6988 pulls a short cut of freight cars west towards Newton, IA after a few days of excursions out in Illinois.

An unidentified QJ climbs the long grade out of the steel making city of Anshan in northeast China. Lacking number plates and with chalk marks on the smokebox the loco is likely making a test run ... (more)

A steam-powered regular train of the WeiƟeritztalbahn 750-mm-gauge railway in Saxony, Germany crosses the S-shaped viaduct across the core of the village. This railway was damaged along its entir... (more)

A steam-powered regular train of the WeiƟeritztalbahn 750-mm-gauge railway in Saxony, Germany steams up the Rabenauer Grund canyon of the Rote WeiƟeritz river. This section of the railway (like ... (more)

The class LV locomotive was designed as a successor to the class L 2-10-0, which had been a successful design developed during World War II. However, by the late 1940s some drawbacks to the design... (more)