On December 26, 1955, we drove down to the Englewood New York Central roundhouse, figuring that we would see at least a few in service steam locomotives. It was another cold and cloudy day, typica... (more)

A couple of well placed flashes bring out the finer details of this Baltic tank locomotive used on the Montreal-Rigaud commuter line. When built, loco # was GTR 1544.

R761 double heading with R707 powers into Macedon on a chilly spring day. They are headed to Castlemaine and Bendigo on a Steamrail Tour.

R707-R761 on 8096 Steamrail special from Bendigo as it passes over the Taradale viaduct, which was built in 1860. Sat 09/10/10

Inside the roundhouse at Calumet Yard NKP Hudson 173 rested after being coaled and watered. By this time she was mostly backup power for the Alco Pas that handled NKPs passenger service. On June 1... (more)

Calumet Yard, on Chicago's south side, was the home of the last roundhouse built in the United States, completed in 1952. The modern yard and engine terminal was built to replace older facilities ... (more)

The Empress heads east through the Kicking Horse Canyon and under the 90 metre high Park Bridge. That is an IMAX camera mounted above the driver pistons.

Spic and span and ready for return to Vancouver.

Steaming upgrade on a chilly summer morning west of Lake Louise, 2816 makes an incredible sight headed up the east slope of Kicking Horse Pass

At the end of the day 78.618 an Austrian 4-6-4T is ready to turn on the table at Ampflwang, in the background 0-8-0T 392.2530 waits it's turn. Ampflwang is the head quarters of the Austrian Socie... (more)

The Empress overnights in the dark reaches of the yard as the night traffic passes by on the Main.

Steaming up out of Lake Louise westbound on the original mainline, now the south track used by eastbounds, 2816 puts out a cloud of steam taking a run at the 1.8% east slope of Kicking Horse Pass

The Empress is working hard coming out of Lake Louise to the Kicking Horse summit at Divide. Even the weather couldn't diminish the beautiful sight and sound of a steam locomotive climbing a grad... (more)

R761 hauls T356 (dead attached or off-line) and a set of wooden 'E' type cars up the 1 in 50 grades of 'The Haunted Hills' near Moe, on Steamrail's annual 'Snow Train' to Traralgon.

Pre-dawn view of CPR 2816 storming out of Lake Loiuse. Excursion passengers had overnighted there with train departing long before the sun came over the mountains.