With swinging bell and screaming whistle, one that I have always thought the best ever blown, No. 425 is letting the world know she's a' coming on a crisp autumn day. Easily one of the LOUDEST ste... (more)

Grand, Glorious and One heck of a locomotive, and doing what it was made to do, high speed passenger railroading on the Corridor. Poignant this time was for the end of the GG-1's reign was very n... (more)

The engineers qualified to run Steamtown's CP Pacific 2317 up "the Hill" come together on the turntable in Scranton. This somber gathering marks the locomotive's last day of service before a manda... (more)

This is not something you see every day. The 142 has had all 96 of her tubes removed. So that you could see many of the tube holes, the Chief Mechanical Officer set up two lights inside the boiler... (more)

Hawaiian Railway No. 5 gets to stretch her legs only twice a year at the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association. I was stunned to learn that a beautiful 3 foot gauger was alive and in Connect... (more)

NYS&W No. 142's smokebox door is open while repairs are being done to her innards.

This is Mark St Aubin with Illinois Central 790 at Steamtown in Scranton PA. Mark has been involved with many steam locomotives over the years including the outstanding restoration of NKP No 765. ... (more)

A home built box car is seen near the location of the East Broad Top Railroad Coal Washing Plant in Mt Union PA. This car, along with its hundred or so brethren, has sat here since April 13, 1956 ... (more)

We are watching as steam locomotive specialist Jason machines a 2-8-0's main driver so that it is no longer out of round. Notice the shiny upper part of the rim; this signifies that about half has... (more)

Lima black in a sea of EMD blue. Here we see NKP 765 get ready to depart on a 1988 NRHS Convention excursion from Bound Brook NJ to Temple PA. There the conventioneers will be able to ride behind ... (more)

It's a race! Here we are at the west end of Astoria Queen's vast Sunnyside Yard seeing the inbound No.7 and the westbound ACELA about to plunge into the East River tunnels on their respective trip... (more)

My first railroad book was Lucius Beebe's "High Iron." It was one of his early books that helped set the standard of the "smoking wedge." In collecting every one of his books, I often wondered if ... (more)

The world's greatest railroad observation car, Milwaukee Road "Cedar Rapids," gets ready to take a bath at the Amtrak shops in Chicago. The train is returning to home base Minneapolis flush from s... (more)

Here you see the result my second night of flash shooting; a not too bad shot of NHRR's pretty Baldwin No. 40. But perhaps the real story is for the first time in a lifetime of photography, this ... (more)

The No. 425 is a lean machine, loves to run and makes sure everyone knows it. Here it is blasting through Nesquehoning PA's Industrial Complex one recent October day.