Maryland & Delaware RS3m 1202 soaks up the sunshine as it sits outside the Massey enginehouse at the junction of the shortline's Centreville and Chestertown lines.

Some of the best sun and only smoke seen from Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 33 was on the reverse move from Morgan Run to Sugarcreek, seen here passing a farm just south of Pearl early Saturday ... (more)

A typical prairie scene, except for the large steam locomotive blasting through. UP Challenger 3985 leads a short train eastward, while coal empties head west back to the mines. The track at left ... (more)

A quick snow shower darkened the skies over Cresson on this cold Saturday afternoon, which found a typical West Slope helper set, SD40-2s 3375 and 3373, sharing company with most of Norfolk Southe... (more)

Rear view of CP 2317's tender derailed, with some crew and onlookers milling about.

During the afternoon parade of the Conrail family of locomotives, NS SD70Ace 1067, painted in the Reading heritage scheme, rolls past Southern FP7 6133 and GP30 2601. The Lackawanna heritage unit ... (more)

Eight active engines in one shot... sort of. The eight active steam engines that attended TrainFestival 2009 pose around the turntable at the beginning of Friday's night photo session. From... (more)

Train time in Roanoke. As the porter puts away a couple's bags and the conductor starts to collect tickets from the recently-boarded passengers, N&W 1218 waits to follow the passenger train... (more)

The final stop on the Bailey Yard tours offered during North Platte's Railfest was the North Platte Diesel Facility, where UP 1996 (Southern Pacific), UP 1995 (Chicago & North Western, and UP 1989... (more)

What's going on here? Q: Is Union Pacific 4-8-4 844 being used in helper service, or is this a three-train meet? A: Three train meet. With congestion in Topeka and Kansas City, the 844 had ... (more)

CP 2317 tender and the first coach of the train sitting on the ground in the Delaware Water Gap.

A steam engine draws a crowd everywhere it goes. This mother and daughter take a picture of the blue Pacific as she passes with the second Tunkhannock-Jim Thorpe excursion.

Stranger in a foreign land. Thanks to the busiest travel day of the year, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, Northeast railfans are treated to unusual sights with Amtrak leasing commuter rail e... (more)

Happy Independence Day. Americans flags fly and families lounge on the grass in front of the Red Caboose Motel as 2-10-0 90 returns to Strasburg with the last train of the day on this cryst... (more)

It's not often you see... a steam engine used to move diesels around a yard. After returning from Pittston, SW-8M 803 and SD38 2000 were sitting on 425's usual center track at the engine ho... (more)