Nevada Northern Railway 2-8-0 93 pauses in the East Ely Yard with trainmaster Con Trumbull watching closely. 93 has a freight consist to kick off the first Winter Steam Photo Weekend of 2024. Loco... (more)

Nevada Northern Railway RS-3 109 and 2-8-0 93 pose side-by-side at the East Ely Depot, depicting a classic scene from the early to mid 1950's when railroads were transitioning from steam to diesel... (more)

Nevada Northern 93 poses next to the Cherry Creek depot, located west of the East Ely Yard for a night photoshoot during the first Winter Steam Photo Weekend of 2024. This is the first time the Ne... (more)

Nevada Northern 93 blasts out of Tunnel 1 on the Keystone Line, east of Ely, Nevada during Day 2 of the first Winter Steam Photo Weekend of 2024. There was no shortage of steam for the photographe... (more)

Nevada Northern 93 rolls by the wig wag signals and the railway's hi-rail vehicle in the East Ely yard during the first Winter Steam Photo Weekend for 2024. The hi-rail is a 1956 Pontiac station w... (more)

Union Pacific's Chicago & North Western heritage unit appears briefly between the trees on the upper part of the historic Williams Loop, located near Spring Garden, California. In a few moments it... (more)

UP 1995, wearing the iconic Chicago & North Western heritage colors, is in charge of a monster of a manifest heading for Fresno, California from Green River, Wyoming. They're approaching Portola, ... (more)

In some freak turn of events, NS heritage unit 1068, painted in the Erie Railroad colors, handles a Roper, UT to Milpitas, CA autorack train. Behind the 1068 is one of the CP AC4400's featured in ... (more)

Amtrak 164 has recently debuted in "Phase IV" colors, replacing 184 as the Phase IV heritage unit. I was lucky enough to capture 164 on its very first assignment in the new colors, which was the C... (more)

An eastbound intermodal struggles up the last couple miles to the summit of Donner Pass with endangered searchlights overhead. New replacement signals are set up behind where I was standing for th... (more)

Another addition to my shots of eastbounds at Patrick, UP 8254 roars through Patrick on the Nevada subdivision with a lengthy stack train bound for Salt Lake City.

UP 2578 gains speed heading east from Sparks after receiving a crew change about a half hour earlier.

BNSF 108 and 144 speed across the steel bridge at Patrick with the LC505J. I don’t recall them running on Saturdays regularly, so this was a surprise.