Because the trips made by the Ottawa Valley railway are infrequent I asked at the main offices when they had trains running. I was told that this was heading East with almost 100 oil cars that mo... (more)

Once the locomotives got moving I chased them all the way to Sudbury which was the destination of the train. Seen here entering Greater Sudbury

It is early morning. I am ready to chase a train, the locomotives are not. It will be another 2 hours before they start moving

Numbers 8393,8391,8392 and 8395 in harness with an eastbound train. Never seen consecutive numbers before.

Two trains meet under the watchful gaze of the Trump building

Late afternoon sunshine lights the yard in North Bay. Overhead the moon rises. A man on the radio said that this was a blue moon

Running late after rail repairs freight heads towards Milwaukee

Chicago skyline above Union station

Another area of the narrow gauge which has been recently opened. Here guest engine 104 is at the head of a train carrying sawn wood. The traction engine has been harnessed to drive a belt which in... (more)

This weekend is Beamish museum's annual steam fair and this year it has a World War 1 theme. In the pit yard two narrow gauge steam locomotives vie for attention with a narrow gauge armoured senti... (more)

Replica locomotive the Steam Elephant backs onto its coaches in the shed yard at Beamish museum. This locomotive was built using only an oil painting that was in the museum's collection for guide ... (more)

Bowes railway only opens once a month and doesn't always feature steam running so this was quite a rare occasion. No 22 heads a demonstration freight up the line on a sunny Sunday afternoon

Stephenson Railway museum probably has the least scenic stretch of line in the whole of the UK. Built around a test line for the Tyne and Wear Metro system in the 1970's it features a straight len... (more)

Sadly now removed from the skyline these signals dominated the exit from Barnetby for many years. A class 60 heads for the coast with a rake of oil tankers a few days before colour lights were ins... (more)