Florida East Coast 148 charges through the Florida countryside with its short passenger train as the sun rises on a gorgeous April morning.

Night Work. The FEC-dressed Pacific poses for pictures during a night photo session before returning to Clewiston, FL.

Heading to Los Angeles, Southern Pacific GS-4 4449 makes a service stop in Tehachapi after climbing out of the San Joaquin Valley. The low sun this morning creates a mood similar to a plein ai... (more)

Reflections of the Way I Used to Be. Dressed up in FEC garb, the beautifully restored U.S. Sugar Light Pacific 148 crosses Fisheating Creek during a US Sugar sponsored photo charter.

The old Ford was the first of several props to appear on the photo charter.

Planes, Trains and Tractors......The Sugar Express pulls out all the stops for the photo charter. Rebranded locomotives, check, Crop duster, check. John Deere tractor, check.

Early Morning Steam. Dressed up in FEC garb, the beautifully restored U.S. Sugar Light Pacific 148 does a runby early on the morning of a photo charter hosted by the railroad.

Black River & Western 60 accelerates its freight train across Central Avenue on a cloudy April day.

Eight bovine agree....the eighth (of ten) such steam locomotives delivered to FEC in April 1920 looks right in 2024...it may be 4/20, but you are seeing things right....for the weekend, US Sugar r... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train number 19, The Chief, is departing Barstow California with seven cars in 1933. Otto's speed estimate was 12 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Western Pacific 4-8-2 171 is seen at Oroville California in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A ten car California-Nevada R.R. Historical Society Excursion is seen at Roseville California on November 30th 1957. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

For reasons unknown SP train number 19, the Klamath, has arrived Gerber California 8 hours & 15 minutes late on July 30th 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Southern Railway 2-8-0 154 was built in 1890 by Schenectady Locomotive Works for the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway as ETV&G 466. Four years later, that railroad merged with the Ric... (more)

Steam crew is in a shoving move on the Norfolk Southern main in Salisbury, North Carolina on a day when passenger excursions were being run out of the North Carolina Transportation Museum to nearb... (more)