Steam returns to the Naugy. From his lofty perch in the cab of his trusty U-Boat, an Engineer from the Railroad Museum of New England admires a vistor from another era. For the 3rd year in... (more)

Another lazy summer afternoon at the Murdo, South Dakota "1880 Town." The locomotive is former Great Western Sugar Co. No. 7, which was built new for GW in August 1938 as Davenport C/N 2267. It is... (more)

"Percy" pulls a short train around the MCRR loop on the first day of the 2010 Old Threshers Reunion

Easy there! Because the spout on the water tower won't reach it's tank, 0-4-0T No. 16 has to be filled with a fire hose. This is what happens when it become over-full.

The Lake Region Pioneer Thresher Association's tiny French 0-4-0T steams through a driving rain on the Dalton Decauville Railroad. The engine was built by Decauville of Corbil, France in 1914 and... (more)

A quiet Sunday morning finds a crew from the Railroad Museum of New England giving Flagg Coal #75 a workout assembling a string of vintage freight cars in the yard adjacent to the old Plume & Atwo... (more)

A roving ambassador for railroad history! Steam locomotives represented a significant advance in human achievement. They were the first man-made objects that could move under their own p... (more)

Prior to the day's passenger trips, a crew from the Railroad Museum of New England takes an opportunity to utilize Flagg Coal #75 for the purpose for which she was designed...switching cars in the... (more)

Steam on the Naugy! Railroad Museum of New England Crew Dispatcher Barb Walcott flags the private crossing at the WHYCo factory as Flagg Coal #75 charges northbound toward Thomaston Station... (more)

Steam on the Naugy! I grew up in Western Connecticut, not far from the town of Torrington. In the 60s, the New Haven Railroad branch line running up the Naugatuck River Valley was the only... (more)

The Minnetonka's steam gauge hasn't registered steam pressure since 1959, when it was last steamed up to film a television commercial in Seattle. Since 1976 its been displayed indoors at the Lake... (more)

0-4-0T #25 rolls a mixed train formation along the dual gauge section between Noyelles and St Valery during the railway's steam gala weekend.

Student engineers were able to operate this neat little Porter 0-4-0T "The Sespe" on short runs to its namesake Sespe Creek during Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society's Railfest 2... (more)

The smallest locomotive on the White Mountain Central Railroad is 24-ton Porter #1. Built in 1930, she spent most of her working life at an industrial plant in Nashua, NH. Retired in 1950s, she... (more)

S&W No. 16 loads coal at Snipe Run. This is the only coal burning locomotive on the MCRR roster, the others being oil burners.