Steam Engine for Hire. One of the more unique steam operations in the United States is an outfit called the "Gramling Locomotive Works." Based out of Ashley, Indiana, this operation is run... (more)

C&O Hudson #490 Occupying a prominent spot in the B&O Museum's car shop exhibit hall is this odd-looking steam locomotive from the post-World War II "streamliner era." You are lo... (more)

Cumberland Valley Railroad Locomotive #13 - "Pioneer." On display in the roundhouse gallery of Baltimore's B&O Railroad Museum, at least as of 2018, is this rare, 2-2-2T tank engi... (more)

B&O Locomotive #25 - "William Mason." On display in the roundhouse gallery of Baltimore's B&O Railroad Museum is one of the oldest examples of a classic, 4-4-0 "American Stan... (more)

The Pacific Locomotive Association. Here, the crews from the Pacific Locomotive Association (dba, the Niles Canyon Railway) pose with the two big articulated locos that performed this day f... (more)

Splitting the signals. Spewing out a plume that would make Beebe & Clegg smile, Clover Valley Lumber Company's saddle-tanker #4 splits the twin semaphores just west of Sunol Depot, in the l... (more)

Westbound local. Clover Valley Lumber Company saddle-tanker #4 runs compass west with a local freight on the Niles Canyon Railway in the low-angle afternoon sun.

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Double-headed, compound, articulated Mallets. Here's a head-on view of Columbia River Belt Line #7 "Skookum" and Clover Valley Lumber Company #4 charging westbound with a mixed freight in t... (more)

Moon over Sunol. A full moon rises over the the 1884-vintage Southern Pacific Depot in Sunol, CA, as Clover Valley Lumber Co. saddle-tanker #4 sits hot and ready for her next assignment. ... (more)

Babysitting the beast. The shadowy figure of Clover Valley Lumber Co. #4's engineer wades through a bath of steam from the open cylinder cocks, as he oils around his locomotive in anticipat... (more)

A rare event in the 21st century. There are not many articulated steam locomotives left in running condition in the year 2020. You can pretty much count them on one set of fingers. So ... (more)

Clover Valley Lumber #4 and the "Burning of Rome". At just above every charter, we'll get one photographer who gets really grumpy after a run-by that features an almost completely... (more)

Skookum with a string of empties. Columbia River Belt Line #7 "Skookum" charges compass west up the hill at Vallejo Mill (MP 30.3) with a string of empty log bunks destined for a ... (more)

Vallejo Mill. On a beautiful, sunny day in February, Clover Valley Lumber Co. #4 climbs the grade at Vallejo Mill with a local freight consist in tow, headed for Niles Yard, perhaps a half ... (more)

Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7 "Skookum". Here's a close-up, low-angle view of "Skookum" as she brings her newly turned log train onto the wye in the Niles Yard. N... (more)