A steady rain and cool 50-degree temperature made for a damp walk on the Highway 2 bridge to capture Milwaukee Road 261 arriving in Duluth. The positive side is that the weather enhanced the steam... (more)

A steady rain and cool 50-degree temperature made for a damp walk on the Highway 2 bridge to capture Milwaukee Road 261 crossing BNSF's ex-NP Grassy Point Draw linking Duluth and Superior. The pos... (more)

SSW819 is returning to Pine Bluff from the 1990 NRHS convention in St. Louis, MO.

PRR K4s No. 1361 is heading back to Altoona on the old PRR mainline after pulling a public excursion from Tyrone to Bellefonte over the Bald Eagle Branch.

The crepe myrtles are in full bloom in Ashland, Virginia as a group of locals watch a steam double header roll south on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac. Several of them are covering their e... (more)

Norfolk and Western class J number 611 crosses the "Curvy Bridge" (as known by the train crews) west of Goodview, Virginia, with eastbound excursion train 958, the "Roanoker".

Pennsylvania Railroad No. 1223, borrowed from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and the Strasburg Rail Road, leads the Nylon Express for DuPont through Greenwood, Del. The train celebrated the 5... (more)

With the "San Diego Steam Special" in tow, ATSF 3751 highballs past San Clemente State Beach on her way north to LA.

Steam in the Desert

Back during 3751's last grand tour of the west when the Grand Canyon Limited made its journey from LA to the Grand Canyon via some rare mileage I had the oppo... (more)

Pere Marquette 1225 is southbound on the former Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad just north of Cadillac after being towed to Manton, Michigan on a short side trip as part of the "Back to the... (more)

Dressed for the Chessie, former Reading T-1 2101 hauls the Chessie Steam Special east out of Chesterton on a round-trip from Chicago to Hartford, MI to help celebrate the Sesquicentennial of the f... (more)

Dressed for the Chessie, former Reading T-1 2101 hauls the Chessie Steam Special past the tower at Porter on the return trip to Chicago from Hartford, MI to help celebrate the Sesquicentennial of ... (more)

Dressed for the Chessie, former Reading T-1 2101 hauls the Chessie Steam Special over the famous Thomas Viaduct to help celebrate the Sesquicentennial of the first railroad in America, the B&O.

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 whistles as it meets an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train at Casa Blanca, four miles west of the Riverside Amtrak/Metrolink station. The steam engine i... (more)

A view of Rockville Bridge from behind doubleheaded steam pulling open-window coaches. The Lancaster Chapter NRHS excursion train powered by PRR 7002-1223 is heading west to just beyond the signa... (more)