WW&F Track Construction Gantry Car: "Elmer". Here's a clean view of the WW&F's recently-developed track construction gantry car, affectionately known as "Elmer". This car, and its accompan... (more)

A long way from home. As I was exploring the local area around the Grand Canyon Railway Depot in Williams, AZ, I came upon something I really didn't expect to see. There, right in front o... (more)

Grand Canyon Railway #29, up close and personal. Here's an in-your-face look at one of the finest-looking, standard-gauge Consolidation locomotives left in existence, as she barrels past me... (more)

Mid-afternoon charge over Miller's Wash. Sporting one of the classiest paint schemes in all of tourist railroading, Grand Canyon Railway Consolidation #29 continues her mid-afternoon dash t... (more)

Southbound at Willaha. Trailing a dark plume of oil smoke, Grand Canyon Railway #29 charges through Willaha (approx MP 37.7) with a Trains Magazine Photo Charter, headed for Williams, AZ at... (more)

Smokescape: Land of the 40 mph run-by. Some 15 miles south of Coconino Canyon, GCR Locomotive #29 and her Passenger Special are now out on the high plains, where the tracks are super-straig... (more)

Steamscape: Coconino Canyon. Just about 7 miles south of the Grand Canyon Village, Locomotive #29 finds herself deep in in the piney forests of Conconino Canyon. This canyon features a win... (more)

AT&SF Archaeology. Framed by the ruins of a decaying Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Section House at Willaha Siding, Grand Canyon Railway Locomotive #29 highballs north to the Grand Canyon V... (more)

Grand Canyon Special. Grand Canyon Railway Consolidation #29 is making track speed with a 5-car special train as she rounds the bed 2 miles south of Willaha Siding, on the northbound run to... (more)

Last call at the canyon. After more than 15 years in intermittent service, Grand Canyon Railway Consolidation #29 makes her last call at the Grand Canyon Village Depot on October 26th, 2019... (more)

Bingo....Bingo.....Bingo. In military fighter aircraft, the pilots typically calculate the minimum fuel level required to make it home with a safe reserve remaining and enter that data into... (more)

Quiet on the photo line! With roughly 40 photographers waiting patiently, our Trans Magazine Photo Special holds the siding at Quivero for the passage of the Grand Canyon Railway's daily ca... (more)

Last hurrah for the green Harrimans. Grand Canyon Railway Consolidation #29 makes one of her last southbound charges with five of the green, Harriman-style commuter coaches, just south of t... (more)

Model railroading at 12" to the foot scale. Looking every bit like some of the over/under arrangements that are common on basement model railroad layouts, Grand Canyon Railway #29 comes cru... (more)

The last doubleheader. With Grand Canyon Railway Locomotive #29's Form 4 set to expire effectively at the end of the day, the railroad took one last opportunity to team her up with the 4960... (more)