Royal Hudson 2860 glides west along a reflection pond at Moberly, BC as it returns its train west to North Vancouver after touring eastern Canada and part of the U.S. as the Captain Cook Excursion... (more)

R761 has just run 125km from Echuca, and is performing some shunting at Castlemaine (leaving some rollingstock and K153 at the Victorian Goldfields Railway) before continuing a further 125km south... (more)

R761's crew examine the fire during a short stop at Bendigo, transferring back to Melbourne after a weekend in Echuca.

R761 passes the site of Moama station (the mound on the right is what's left of the platform), returning to Echuca on a shuttle from Barnes. The message on the nose refers to the Western Bulldogs ... (more)

Steamrail Victoria's R761 leads a private charter train to Castlemaine from Southern Cross Station, Clarkefield Victoria.

R761 leads sister Hudson R711 on the return SteamRail "Snow Train" for a quick station stop at Pakenham. The 14 carriage train was slightly too long for the station section, so the t... (more)

Running nearly an hour late, and in temperatures of about 5 degrees celsius, R711 and R761 power through the Melbourne CBD with the return working of Steamrail's 'Snow Train' from Traralgon. Given... (more)

After Southern’s ex-CP Royal Hudson picked the turntable track at Charlottesville, Virginia, seen here, the C&O sent the ... (more)

R711 flies down the 1 in 67 grade towards Kangaroo Flat, with a special to Bendigo. 711 is named 'City of Bendigo,' as it was statically displayed here in a park before restoration.

Oil burning Hudson R711 blasts up grade near Harcourt, on a special to Bendigo.

”We’ve got a little problem here!”

When the Southern Railway’s excursions from Alexandria, Virginia reached their destination in Charlottesville, the normal procedure was t... (more)

For quite a few years, steam excursions from Alexandria to Charlottesville, Virginia over the Southern Railway (and later Norfolk Southern) were annual occurrences. This trip in 1979 was a little ... (more)

Assault on Brandy Station

Putting on a show for patrons of the 1979 NRHS convention, Royal Hudson 2839 crests the small hump on the Southern Railway’s main line at Brandy Station... (more)

An excursion train from Feilding to Masterton passes through the tiny village of Mauriceville. This section of line now has no trains apart from occasional excursion trains. 794 was built at Hil... (more)

A mid-winter dinner excursion train arrives at Masterton where passengers will have lunch at a nearby hotel. 794 was built at Hillside in Dunedin in 1927 and, after restoration, returned to mainl... (more)