Can you believe it? This 144-year-old locomotive is on outdoor display at the Michigan Iron Industry Museum, located at the site of the Jackson Iron Company mine in Negaunee. The "Yankee" was bu... (more)

Steam powered Rotary snow plow on display at Union Station in Ogden, Utah.

D&RGW K-27 No. 464 backs down to her coaches past the water tank at Crossroads Village, in preparation for another day of running on the old Pere Marquettle line that once served this area of Flin... (more)

SP 4449 blast out of the west portal at Tunnel City, Wisconsin on the inbound trip to Minneapolis. Famously, in 1975 when the American Freedom Train came through here the engine was working hard,... (more)

UP 119 performs on May 10th for the 137th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike.

"Friends of the 457" recently completed a ten-year cosmetic restoration of this Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-8-0, which included an overhead shelter, recorded sounds, steam effects, and working light... (more)

After six years of painstaking restoration, Detroit & Lima Northern 7 has entered service at The Henry Ford. Here it is backing away from the Greenfield Village roundhouse, ready to start the day... (more)

Have you ever seen a cab like this? Note the abundence of polished brass, double firedoors, and the strange placement of the injector right in the center of the backhead. This is former DT&I 4-4... (more)

Just a few minutes before sunset, UP's Challenger No. 3985 steams through Hoffman Avenue on CP Main 1, heading for the Depot Track.

Union Pacific 844 rolls downgrade amongst the red rocks of Echo Canyon. The dynamic brakes of the trailing diesel unit drowned out the sounds of the steam locomotive.

Missabe 2-8-8-4 227 and a Milwaukee Road boxcab electric, displayed side-by-side, are the highlights of a visit to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minn.

What do you do when your train runs out of gas? Call in the local fuel distributor! CP 8512, with a faulty fuel gauge, ran dry on the Paynesville Subdivision near Kimball. The Land-O-Lakes oil ... (more)

Dakota Southern 506 started life in 1954 as Milwaukee Road 2232. It was painted in this scheme during 1989 to celebrate South Dakota's centennial. It's now facing an uncertain future, as the tra... (more)

Nevada Northern 40 approaching the tunnel on the outskirts of Ely.

My attempt at a pan shot, a la Mitch Goldman. Taken at F22 @ 1/30th of a second (I'm not brave enough to try 1/6th yet, Mitch!)