Bound for Arcade. Just over a mile northeast of Arcade, NY, the Arcade & Attica Railroad's 105-year-old, Alco Consolidation #18 charges south at track speed, heading back to the Arcade Depo... (more)

Steamscape: The Highline. Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 #477 takes a Durango-bound mixed train through the most famous stretch of track on the 45-mile Silverton Branch, that being the hi... (more)

Take on some water at the Needleton Tank... After a water stop in the Animas wilderness at Needleton Tank (MP 484.4), Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 #477 begins to accelerate her mixed tr... (more)

The days grow short when you reach December... Just about 30 minutes before official sunset, Valley Railroad Consolidation #97 takes the railroad's 3rd North Pole Express (TM) trip of the d... (more)

Crossing the Rio de los Pinos. A Rio Grande freight rumbles across the timber trestle that spans the Rio de los Pinos at Milepost 324.52, as it works north in the valley named for this rive... (more)

Homeward bound. The late afternoon shadows are rapidly swallowing up the high desert landscape outside Antonito, Colorado, as the Cumbres & Toltec's vintage 10-wheeler #168 brings her consi... (more)

Time travelers. Reliving a scene right out of the late 1880s, Denver & Rio Grande Locomotive #168 takes a vintage passenger train west through the Southern Colorado desert at Milepost 285.6... (more)

Pickin' up the herd. The fall stock rush is in full swing as a Rio Grande freight out of Durango, CO takes the siding at the Chama stock pens to pick up a local rancher's herd for a trip to... (more)

Here comes the Silverton. In weather conditions that could best be described as "atmospheric", a Denver & Rio Grande Western, Silverton mixed train slowly snakes its way north thr... (more)

High bridge blow-down. The crew of Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 #477 opens the blow-down valve as their locomotive leads a mixed train across the high bridge in Tacoma, near Milepost 47... (more)

The "Sports Model" sisters. Posing together in their respective stalls in the Durango roundhouse are the three survivors from the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad's K-28 locom... (more)

Freight on the Valley Line. The former Aberdeen & Rockfish Mikado #40 takes a short, branch-line freight north out of Old Saybrook, CT on the former New York, New Haven & Hartford Connectic... (more)

Charging into the tunnel. Peak fall colors are still a couple of weeks away as a short excursion train from Connecticut's Valley Railroad charges north into the very dense "tree tunnel... (more)

Classics meet at Dock Road. There's just a little fall color beginning to show along the Connecticut River Valley as a pair of classics from the early years of the last century meet at Dock... (more)

The "beast" at blue hour. Just a few minutes after sunset, the massive AT&SF #2926 steams in the yard in Albuquerque, NM under lights provided by Lerro Photography. The recently ... (more)