With the return leg of the Cheyenne Frontier Days excursion, the Pride of the Union Pacific steam program rockets across the plains north of Fort Lupton, CO. Big thanks to Mike Burkhart for battl... (more)

What Year Is It Again? For the first time in 60 years, a Big Boy cools its heels in Rawlins Yard. (Taken with permission and an escort.)

A View From Above- As seen from the top of the concrete coaling tower that dominates the Ely skyline, Nevada's Official State Steam Locomotive makes its way back to the west end of the yard... (more)

Slim Princess Southbound- Passing the fuel oil and water tanks at Laws, the Slim Princess departs for a meandering afternoon trek down the Owens Valley to Keeler. Taken at the Slim Princess... (more)

From the bluff high above the Overland Route, the westbound Big Boy struts across the Wyoming plains for the first time in over half a century.

Working up the slight grade to Bridge Street, a lone GP38-2 leads two high and wide loads down the A&E Subdivision. These two vessels are destined for Markwest in Evans City, but due to clearance... (more)

From a distance I was fooled into thinking Union Pacific had 844 out for test runs... I was pleasantly surprised to find it was only a GE on its deathbed, leading an eastbound intermodal train thr... (more)

East Meets West At what can arguably be named one of the most significant sites in American history, the Central Pacific from the west and the Union Pacific from the east met at Promontory ... (more)

Standing in the crisp California sunshine, the Slim Princess sits on the turntable lead in the tiny town of Laws, readying for the return trip to Owenyo. Taken at the Slim Princess Reunion, this ... (more)

With the second and third Tacoma Narrows Bridges looming in the distance, an afternoon Cascades skirts the shores of Puget Sound. Within the next few weeks, all Amtrak traffic should be re-routed... (more)

With the sound of three EMD 645's screaming in run 8, two Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40T-3's bracing an SD38AC drag a loaded ore drag out of Conneaut Harbor. An unexpected snowstorm that morning foll... (more)

Returning to Roanoke with the third and final Radford excursion of 2015, I caught this pan shot of 611 across a field.

With a load of Western Pacific Historical Society Convention attendees on board, venerable McKeen Motor Car #22 backs out onto one leg of the wye at the Nevada State Railroad Museum. With the sho... (more)

Remarks: After passing a parked locomotive with a 10mph speed restriction, the radio cracked to life. "Okay, Ed, you wanted your chance to show them... Here it is!" Big Boy 4014 makes so... (more)

One of my favorite Virginia & Truckee locomotives, "J. W. Bowker" is a 1875 product of Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co. Currently on display beneath the train shed of the reconstructed Central Pacif... (more)