Steam Specials together with Peter Lerro ran a great weekend of photo runbys with the PM 1225, truly a handsome engine. Lots of thoughful touches, like having vintage freight cars in the consist, ... (more)

Notice the flowers and lawn around the neatly kept white UP station at the end of the lonely Victor branch. Served by just a mixed train when I visited, only a year earlier there had been seasona... (more)

The sad condition of the leased power is indicative of the grim condition of the "new"publicly-owned Northwestern Pacific. It would not be long before the FRA would close the railroad down for nu... (more)

Lunch simmers on the backhead while this Fegua crew drives their Baldwin mike up the 2.8 per cent grade between Zacapa and the El Salvador border. The johnson bar looks to be pretty far into the ... (more)

The Cal Northern ran the south end of the former NWP for less than three years, and only reluctantly, but they ran it well. Here CFNR 200, a former Reserve Mining unit owned by GATX and leased to ... (more)

As far as I can tell this must be the first RCO because even when I blow the picture up on the screen there is still no sign of anyone in the cab.

I don't remember a whole lot about this picture, other than the car is the ex-RDG pv Henry E. Huntington at the end of a Santa Fe passenger train leaving Richmond. I believe the passengers were m... (more)

Runby at the bean warehouse.

It is early Sunday morning and the sun has just peaked over the horizon.

It's Friday before the big weekend of photo charters, and PM 1225 gets some last minute attention.

The 473 switches an inbound train at the east end of the Durango yard. The boxcars were probably empties that would be spotted at the lumber mill for loading. Note the 473 is equipped with footb... (more)

With the first rays of an early morning sun illuminating a split smoke plume, a train of empty log cars pulls into Camp 14 on the Rayonier Hoquiam logging line. Of particular interest in this vie... (more)

Coming into Ogden from Salt Lake on a fan trip up the Ogden Subdivision toward Pocatello (they turned at McCammon if I remember correctly).

The morning passenger train to Puerto Barrios (running as a mixto) crosses the Las Vacas viaduct leaving Guatemala City. One of the many volcanos surrounding Guatemala City is framed by the bridg... (more)

Real mainline steam railroading was coming to an end. During the last year of the JiTong Railway's steam operations, the volume of visiting railfans multiplied. Here the buses of two tour groups ... (more)