Just 2 years ago, although it could have as easily been 70 years. 1225 pus on a show as it hustles a Lerro charter across mid-Michigan.

Just 2 years ago, although it could have as easily been 70 years. 1225 hustles a Lerro charter past a 1951 Chevrolet on a bitter cold Michigan day.

Kanawha ALCO 2-8-4 #2716 leads its eastbound train past the old depot site. #2716, built for the C&O as one of their 90 "Kanawha" type steam engines, operated from Birmingham to Opelika... (more)

Two Lima Berkshire 2-8-4's head up a steam special for a fall color tour to Cadillac. One of my favorite memories with my Dad. We rode 1st class in the observation car. New to photography at the t... (more)

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

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)