Dropping back 48 years from my last post, here is another one of those grainy faded Anscochromes that has been reasonably resurrected by Photoshop. No. 3 is doing intra plant switching at the mil... (more)

It's often tough to get good pix while on a family vacation, but the Izaak Walton Inn perhaps offers an exception. Here between Red Bus tours and lake boat rides I found time for a morning trip o... (more)

It is shortly before sunset as a California Northern drag from Willits approaches the Brazos bridge over the Napa River and the end of a long day. This section of line is former SP, but beyond Sc... (more)

Former RGS Goose 5, now owned and restored to operation by the Gallooping Goose Historical Society of Dolores, Colorado heads downhill from Cumbres summit on the C&TS. The early C&TS crews called ... (more)

Last shot of the day. This was the DRHS/C&TS moonlight special from Antonito to Osier and return. We left a bit late and by the time we got to Big Horn the light was fading quickly. But what li... (more)

The FO looks like it is dropping off the edge of the earth. The meter gauge FO is partly adhesion and partly rack (you can see the beginning of the rack section on the right). This is part of th... (more)

Fegua 181 doubleheads with road engine 204 leaving Escuintla for the climb up the 3.7 percent (ruling) grade to Palin Pass enroute Guatemala City. Both engines are postwar products of Baldwin. T... (more)

Can't remember exactly where this was (probably Radnor), nor can I identify a unit number, but this is a former North Shore Electroliner on the Philadelphia Red Arrow Lines (former Philadelphia an... (more)

Cloe, you check out the train, I'm gonna keep my eye on this fool with the camera who is about to fall off the fence into the you know what.

In the early morning a westbound auto rack train grinds up the grade toward Donner.

A line of stored boxcars stretches as far as the eye can see on a cold March morning. The Loyalton Industrial Lead, formerly the WP Loyalton branch, served a lumber mill. The mill is gone and th... (more)

Looks like a good way a lose a few fingers. Usually a brake club or just a stick was used to hold the link up. The F.C.S.A on the journal box lid stands for Ferrocarril Santa Ana, an FES predece... (more)

SP 2472 blasts around a curve with its consist of Harriman heavyweight cars. The road foreman would be happy with the economy haze from the stack, the fire is in good balance and using fuel effic... (more)

The exhaust from SP 2472 blasts the telltales as she pulls a photo special through Niles Canyon. I had almost forgotten telltales, one of the many details from the old days that are largely missi... (more)