Alamosa to Chama via Cumbres. Having taken water just 7 miles back at Osier, the Chama-bound 487 and her string of stockers charge past the well-worn Los Pinos Tank on the climb to Cumbres ... (more)

Rim Ridin'. A Denver & Rio Grande Western Mixed Train tip-toes along the rock ledge above the Rio de las Animas as she heads south toward Rockwood Station. Although the famous horseshoe cu... (more)

Steaming through a rich history. Steam Into History's brand new excursion train follows 10 miles of county-owned and essentially abandoned ROW that was originally built in the late 1830s as... (more)

A DIESEL on Mt. Washington?? Noooooo! Yes, folks, this 600 hp, one-of-a-kind cog locomotive could be a view into the future of the Mt. Washington Cog Railway. Custom-built in the railway's o... (more)

A Silverton Station Agent silently observes preparations for the early morning departure of a southbound D&RGW train. Although the logo on the locomotive clearly rules out a Victorian-era scene,... (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)

Evening southbound freight. WW&F Locomotive #10 whistles for the lonely grade crossing in the tiny town of Alna Center, Maine. Brakemen scramble to their posts and begin to apply the hand ... (more)

Roll-out day! After a major overhaul of the boiler and running gear, D&RGW #346 is rolled out of the Strasburg Back Shop and prepared for shipment back to the Colorado RR Museum. This locomoti... (more)

Steamscape: Crown Point. A V&T freight comes off the Crown Point Fill and is just now passing the ore loading facilities at about MP 50.0. This is one of the flatter stretches of the recon... (more)

PRR #460: "The Lindbergh Engine." If you look down through history at railroad locomotives that have become famous, most gained their fame not from an entire working life, but from one day,... (more)

Big steam in the shadow of the Wasatch. Union Pacific's mighty Northern #844 steams in the yard at Ogden's Union Station on the eve of the sesquicentennial of the Transcontinental Railroad,... (more)

V&T Survivor: Number Twenty Seven. In 1913, the Virginia & Truckee purchased its last new locomotive. Like its most recent purchase six years earlier, this last engine was a 60-ton Baldwin... (more)

Bucking the deep stuff at MP 307.0. Just west of Sublette, DRGW 487 slips the drivers a bit as she struggles uphill through the "white concrete" with a full flanger consist behind... (more)

Treasures of the Henry Ford: The Allegheny Cab Here's a look at the "business office" of the big C&O 2-6-6-6 Allegheny Locomotive, which is housed in The Henry Ford Museum of Amer... (more)

Scrapping the WW&F. It's 1936 and the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway has been out of business for 3 long years. Salvage crews are finally in the process of lifting the rails th... (more)