Sunset on the Pere Marquette. Pere Marquette Locomotive #1225 leads a long, double-headed freight through Smith's Crossing on the Great Lakes Central Railroad, as the train barrels toward i... (more)

The Forecast: Increasing cloudiness....with a chance of cindershowers. A sparking clear morning suddenly becomes a low overcast, as a pair of 400-ton, Lima Berkshire Locomotives charge thr... (more)

Classic Carland....with a twist. Anyone who has made the journey out to Owosso Michigan knows that the classic, must-have image is that of a big Berkshire Locomotive charging past the class... (more)

Two of a kind. In a relatively rare display, both of the extant, operable Lima Berkshire Locomotives strike a side-by-side power-pose with freights in the yard of the Great Lakes Central Ra... (more)

Moving goods through the heartland. A farmer checking his mailbox pauses to observe the passage of a Nickel Plate freight as it heads west, hauling the goods that drive the American economy... (more)

800 tons of Berkshire muscle. Shortly after dawn, Nickel Plate Road #765 and Pere Marquette #1225 charge across the lush farmland of Henderson, Michigan with a 31-car freight consist during... (more)

The NKP 757 and two icons of Pennsy steam- K4s No. 3750 and M1b No. 6755, in the fall of 2018. The 757 was moved to Bellevue, Ohio, in February of 2019. These three would have to be right up the... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

NKP 765, fitted with a Mars Light, crosses from track one to track two to make it's station stop in Charleston WV for one of the 1987 New River Train Excursions.

It's the 765 by a nose, with the 1225 placing, and the coventioneers, locals, and railfans enjoying the show. The occasion was the 1991 NRHS National Convention, hosted by the Collis P. Huntingto... (more)

The Joliet Rocket, led by steam locomotive NKP 765, passes by the waiting fans at Tinley Park, Illinois.

Tom Golden photo.

A look into the ongoing restoration of C&O 2716 at Ravenna, KY. Much work has been accomplished turning a massive derelict car shop and former CSX rail yard into a functioning steam locomotive re... (more)

PM 1223 sits on display in Grand Haven Michigan.Thousands of visitors every summer coming through and getting a view of the steam locomotive as it proudly rests in the park

After taking a load of passengers from Rockside Station to Akron Station, NKP 765 is lit up with spotlights as it poses for photographers at the end of the platform. This was the first nighttime e... (more)