A night ride aboard an open-air "breezer" feels great after a day of 95 degree temperatures. Taken during the 2015 Midwest Old Threshers Reunion, Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

C&TS 489 stomps up to the water plug at Cumbres Summit with the morning train from Chama, New Mexico.

C&TS smokes it up passing the famous Jukes Tree as it departs Chama, New Mexico.

After a night of heavy rain, C&TS 489 is being prepared for a run up Cumbres Pass.

Viscose 0-4-0T 6 backs towards Mount Tremper on this ex-NYC branch line

Viscose 0-4-0T 6 steams around Campground Curve on the Catskill Mountain Railroad during a special weekend of steam runs in upstate New York.

K-37 495 greets visitors as they arrive at the Antonito, Colorado, terminal grounds of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.

484 is working its way towards the shop after bringing in the daily passenger train from Chama.

Rio Grande No. 169, an 1883 Baldwin 4-6-0, is undergoing slow restoration inside the train pavilion at Cole Park in Alamosa. The tender is finished, and attention has turned to the locomotive its... (more)

Cripple Creek & Victor Porter No. 2 whistle for a crossing on the outskirts of Cripple Creek, taking tourists for a ride through the "World's Greatest Gold Camp."

Cripple Creek & Victor Porter No. 3 whistles for a crossing on the outskirts of Cripple Creek, taking tourists for a ride through the "World's Greatest Gold Camp."

Cripple Creek & Victor locomotives 2 and 3 are being fired up on Sunday morning in preparation for tourist trips.

CCV No. 2 started life in 1948 as a 0-4-0T built by Henschel & Sohn for Hanseatische Kieswerke, a German quarry company. It arrived in Cripple Creek in 1970, and has been modified - "Americanized... (more)

In the late afternoon, CC&V engineer bank the fires of their locomotives by filling the fireboxes full of coal, which will fester and simmer overnight. The next morning, there will be enough pres... (more)

Coal smoke rolls skyward as CC&V retraces the old Midland Terminal grade on its way out of Cripple Creek.