The Friends of the 261 North Pull Express makes its short run down the tracks from the Saint Paul Union Depot to the "North Pole" set up just east of the station. In the lead is the Nort... (more)

Winter steam at its best! Narrow-gauge 0-6-2T "U series" steam locomotive #298.53 is departing from Sommerhubermühle with a Christmas train bound for Grünburg on the Steyrtalbahn museu... (more)

On the first day of the program "Winter Steam in the Jura" of the German IGE the train run from Biel via Neuchâtel to Les Verrières and Pontarlier. 2-10-0 "Elephant" C 5/6 # ... (more)

The old steam P36-0218 is hauling a Santa Claus train

RBNM 425 departs the Reading Outer Station

Merry Christmas from Maine! WW&F Fireman Dan Malkowski braves the sub-freezing air as he wrestles the big spout on the Sheepscot Water Tank into position to fill the cistern on Locomotive #... (more)

Steam To Follow. Another recent addition to the SMS Lines fleet, SLRS 9 (née-USATC 4023, 0-6-0, Alco, 10/1942) has already been fired up to test its boiler. There is still cab and cosmetic... (more)

Welcome to the top of New England! The shadows are getting long and there's only perhaps 30 minutes of daylight left as passengers alight from their Cog Railway train on the "roof of N... (more)

Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 number 1278 is just one of more than 20 steam locomotives on display at the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum in Sugarcreek, Ohio. It is well worth the trip to see all the vari... (more)

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1793 and ATSF 4-8-4 3782 lead a 15 car Chief, train 19, west of Trinidad Colorado on April 9th 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF train 9, the Navajo, is seen at Raton with ten cars in the consist, on September 2nd 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 1695 is assisting ATSF EMC E6 number 13 with an eight car El Capitan, in 1942. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

While walking around the station and yard in Durbin, I came across what remains of this old steam engine, which I think is a 3-Truck Heisler number 3.

A visitor from the North is returning to home, while having serious problems on the way. Once again, poor Hr1 1009 has ran out of coal and the crew is desperately trying to load logs in the tender... (more)

SP 4110 is street running with a twelve car Tehachapi, Southern Pacific train 56, in tow at 15 MPH, in 1937. Otto C. Perry photo, from my collection.