A future engineer is helped into the cab of Lackawanna 664.

"Lift me up, Daddy!" A young railfan gets a boost while trying to view historic locomotives at the Streamliners at Spencer event.

As Union Pacific's special moving the Big Boy from southern California to Wyoming nears the end of its first day, a father and his young daughter wave at the train as his other daughter records th... (more)

Not arranged, but a snapshot during the exhibition on the former Swiss Locomotive and Machine works area in Winterthur: A little boy picturing his younger brother with his smartphone in front of s... (more)

How friends took pictures of friends in the days before selfies.

Another one infected.

A child views the vintage full-length domes on the back of The Coast Starlight.

A quiet evening finds a father and son watching trains as the GE test train heads back west to the plant with a brand new BNSF locomotive leading the way.

I took my son sled riding and, lo and behold, there happened to be a rail line at the top of the hill! What a surprise!

On Wednesday January 15th the P&N ran a special Make A Wish trip for a little boy who wanted to run a train. So they allowed him to "run" the locomotive while riding in the engineer's lap from Ran... (more)

Treno Storico Palermo-Caltanissetta.

A rainy and dreary day keeps us in the car, but it can't dampen the spirits of young and old alike who have turned out to see the famous steam locomotive my three year old affectionately calls "th... (more)

My sons and railfanning companions for the day enjoy the view of a nearly new ES44C4 pulling oil loads along the Mississippi at Little Falls.

A young rock climber has just finished climbing Elephant Head Mountain and pauses to watch the GP lead the Notch Train back to North Conway.

After helping me set up the lights for the shot, my daughters wanted to be in the picture. Here they are waving to the passing Providence & Worcester freight, as a fisherman - who showed up a lit... (more)