Steam in the Valley 2016

"The Varsity" Steam Excursion with Nickel Plate 765 crosses a bridge along Fox Lake during its eastbound return trip to Chicago from Janesville, WI with Metra Train 942. The train will ... (more)

The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society's 1944 Lima 2-8-4 Berkshire sits at the Metra Western Avenue Shop after spending the afternoon on display at Franklin Park Fest's Railroad Day. Tomorro... (more)

The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society's 1944 Lima 2-8-4 Berkshire sits at the Metra Western Avenue Shop after spending the afternoon on display at Franklin Park Fest's Railroad Day. Tomorrow... (more)

The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society's 1944 Lima 2-8-4 Berkshire sits at the Metra Western Avenue Shop after spending the afternoon on display at Franklin Park Fest's Railroad Day. Tomorrow... (more)

Southern Railway’s Only Berkshire

During the steam era, the Southern Railway never rostered any locomotives of the 2-8-4 wheel arrangement. In 1981, however, that changed when th... (more)

The sun has come out late on the afternoon of a mostly cloudy day as NKP 765 speeds westbound with the excursion back to Bellevue from Orrville.

Nickel Plate Berkshire no. 765 and tool car have been turned at Orrville and will couple onto the excursion back to Bellevue on the former W&LE.

Nickel Plate S-2 765 is about to pass underneath at Monroeville with a Bellevue - Orrville excursion. The misty morning air picks out both the headlight beam and the oscillating light mounted abov... (more)

With threats of 3 inches of snow on Thursday earlier in the week, I elected to use a day off I had earned at work on Friday, as I wanted to light up the 1225 in the snow. Well, Owosso happened to... (more)

There is not a whole lot that sounds and looks better than a pair of Lima built Berks hauling a freight train at sunrise... it really doesn't get much better at all.

As the cab of Pere Marquette 1225 fills with steam, the engineer sits calm and collected as he blows down the engine prior to departure for the North Pole (Ashley, MI).

Nickel Plate 765 wheels the eastbound New River Train through the Kanawha River Valley approaching Kanawha Falls, West Virginia.

With a replenished water supply, Nickel Plate 765 storms out of Montgomery, West Virginia.. The fourth coach of 1986 New River Train is rolling past the fire department tanker that provided the fi... (more)

The eastbound 1986 New River Train takes a pause at Montgomery, West Virginia. Nickel Plate 765 simmers while the local fire department fills its tank.