Son Mike and his cousin Lisa observe as the engineer prepares the narrow gauge steam locomotive for a trip at the Brookfield Zoo. Unlike most amusement park trains, this railroad functioned simila... (more)

A Roger Puta photograph

The train is The George Washington A Roger Puta photograph

The builder's plate still adorns the insulated smokebox jacketing on venerable old excursion engine #2716. The locomotive has been kept under a shed roof, just a few feet away from L&N 152 which i... (more)

A local switching somewhere in lower Michigan.

The excitement continues at the WMSR as work progresses on the 1309. This week Scott Lindsay of Steam Operations Corporation brought his experts to Cumberland to do an ultrasonic scan of the 1309'... (more)

CO 7504 lead a BO GP9 and Chessie GP40-2 on an eastbound freight east out of Ravenna, Ohio on a dreary snowless winter day in 1981.

C&O 5833 (without a trace of Hocking Valley ownership) sits among friends overnight. Taken on Hocking Valley property with permission.

Fall has come and gone awful early in the highest of elevations already. Remnants of Joaquin pulled winds and moisture out of the east into West Virginia's high mountain country this weekend. Toda... (more)

Ross Rowland's C&O #614 sits on display dressed in a proposed "Greenbrier... (more)

The long-dormant storefronts of Thurmond, West Virginia were brought to life in the fall of 1986 when the town was chosen as the location for shooting the film “Matewan”, an historical account... (more)

Workers continue to remove parts from the boiler of the 1309. The 1309 will be a great addition to steam in the east once she is complete.

Work continues on C&O 1309. Volunteer worker cleans years of grime from the 1309's rods

C&O GP38 3857 awaiting its next work at Gladstone, VA || June 1970

The Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad participated in the Ferndale Days celebration by operating a series of short excursions powered by a C&O NW2. One of those excursions is seen rolling through Lan... (more)