An early morning V&T freight led by former McCloud River #18 leads a freight north climbing the grade over a fill at the east end of Overman Pit en route to Virginia City. This massive, open-pit ... (more)
A V&T freight led by McCloud River #18 progresses north at American Flat around one of several horseshoe curves along the line. It's easy to lose your way along the the V&T, a line proclaimed to ... (more)
McCloud River Railroad #18 on the V&T
Former Northern California transplant, McCloud River Railroad 2-8-2 #18 heads north having charged through Tunnel #4 with a freight bound for Virgi... (more)
A V&T steam powered freight out of Carson City, NV arrives on the scene early one frigid February morning led by McCloud River Railroad transplant, 2-8-2 #18. Before the train arrives at Gold Hil... (more)
On a frigid February morning in the Nevada desert, a steam powered V&T freight climbs the grade out of Carson City en route to Virginia City, NV. Having "logged" an unimaginable number of miles, ... (more)
Steamscape: American Flat. Just north of American Flat Tunnel, a V&T Freight passes through a rock cut and begins to traverse the wide, sweeping horseshoe curve at American Flat. Known as ... (more)
Railway above the clouds. With a sea of lingering morning clouds in the valley just below her, the former McCloud Railway #18 hauls a short freight across the fill that spans the eastern e... (more)
Passing the pit. In the midst of a long, steady climb out of Carson City, the former McCloud #18 lifts the pops as she hauls a short freight past the gaping Overman Pit, en route to Gold Hi... (more)
McCloud River Railroad No. 18 powers a post-Winterail photo special on the Sierra Railroad.
First light over Scales. Morning cloud cover filters the mid-winter sunrise over Scales as the former McCloud River Railroad Mikado #18 hauls a cut of freight cars north toward Gold Hill an... (more)
McCloud 18 worls upgrade as viewed from atop the south portal of Tunnel 4
McCloud 18 exits Tunnel 4 near Virginia City, with the montains of northern Nevada in the background.
McCloud 18 worls upgrade at Gold Hill, Nevada
McCloud 18, transplanted from Northern California, works upgrade towards Gold Hill.
Sunrise over Scales. Pre-dawn snow showers give way to clearing skies over Nevada's Comstock Region, as a V&T Freight winds its way north over the "crookedest shortline in America."
The ... (more)
