Outside the servicing facility near the base station on the Mount Washington Cog railway. Can anyone identify this loco.

ATSF train number 21, El Capitan, is seen near Wootton Colorado in 1944. ATSF 1797 and ATSF E6, number 13, have thirteen cars in tow doing 25 MPH on rugged Raton Pass. Otto Conrad Perry photo from... (more)

ATSF 1792 and ATSF 3767 are doing 30 MPH on Raton Pass, with a 20 car Chief, in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1794 and ATSF 4-8-4 3773 lead train 19, a fourteen car Chief, doing 25 MPH at Lynn New Mexico in 1945. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

Dodging lightning bolts on a photo charter is not the best of activities, but this shot would not have been possible without doing so. I figured the umbrella I was holding would help properly grou... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) heads towards the depot at the Colorado Railroad Museum where it will lash up with vintage passenger cars for the museum's Polar Express train.

Back to the 1930s with NS-8107

Special steam train Siena-Monte Antico-Siena just left from Monte Antico station.

Reading 2102 opens its cylinder cocks in preparation for leaving the steam shops.

Ed Dickens, Senior Manager of Heritage Operations for Union Pacific Railroad, sits in the cab of UP 5511 as it heads east towards Silvas, Illinois. The 2-10-2 locomotive was built in 1923 by the ... (more)

A Nebraska sunrise casts a golden glow over UP Challenger locomotive 3985 and lead engine UP 5716 (ES44AC) as a westbound grain train meets the Hospital Train at Sidney.

"Class H-6 in a Hurry": O. Winston Link has a famous photo of a Class A in full charge outside of Blue Ridge, VA on the N&W Blue Ridge Grade in the late 1950s during the last years of N&... (more)

Who knew a C&O H-6 built in 1949 was good for 60? Here Western Maryland ex-C&O 2-6-6-2 #1309 hustles past the photographer on November 5, 2022 hauling an empty hopper train for the Trains Magazine... (more)

Steam locomotive 03.12 with charter train between Kardzhali and Momchilgrad

Engineer Chad Frederickson prepares Reading & Northern 425 for its one and only Fall Foliage excursion for 2022.