The Santa Cruz @ Monterey Bay Railway Christmas Train, crosses Buena Vista Road in the rain. As close to snow as it will get, but very well received by a dry California.

WMSR 734 Mountain Thunder slides down grade out of Brush Tunnel on her last day of excursion service.

WMSR Mountain Thunder chugs past the Trimble Road Crossing on her last day of excursion service.

GMRC RS1 #405 rolls across the Williams River with the return trip from Ludlow.

Steamy Sheepscot, Maine. For the first time in 82 years, a new day dawns with two steam locomotives being prepared for operation on the Wiscasset Waterville & Framington Railway. In the fo... (more)

NYC bound Amtrak and North Pole bound SNC. The relatively small Saratoga station is packed on the inside and busy on the outside in advance of the Christmas Holiday. A slightly early Amtrak 68, th... (more)

Evening descends on the festively decorated Saratoga Station with the Polar Express patiently waiting for passengers to arrive for a trip to the North Pole. A special thanks goes out to fellow rai... (more)

Sumpter Valley Railway #19 leads the first Christmas Train of the year into the Sumpter depot as a light snow falls.

Running through the Southeastern Pennsylvania woods, the York makes good time approaching Main Street in the town of Railroad.

The first northbound train for the Grand Canyon navigates its way out of Williams on a bright spring morning in Arizona's high country.

Rain continues to fall on a late April evening as the Grand Canyon Railway's steam locomotive, 4960, races south through Red Lake, Ariz. on its return trip from the Grand Canyon.

The Saratoga Station (opened in 2004 by CDTA and serving Amtrak, S&NC, and several bus lines) is nicely decorated for the Holiday Season. In the background the 2015 S&NC Polar Express loads passe... (more)

The second Santa's Express Train of the day crosses the Beaverdam Branch of the Juniata River, having just split from the former Pennsylvania Railroad Petersburg Branch.