With Mt. Shasta in the background, McCloud River Railroad #25 poses for night photos. #25 has been freshly restored to it's as-built paint scheme for a Martin Hansen photo charter. Night photo li... (more)

With Mt. Shasta in the background, McCloud River Railroad #25 storms up grade near Mile Post 4, heading for Signal Butte, on a sunny fall morning. #25 has been freshly restored to it's as-built p... (more)

McCloud River Railroad #25 storms around a curve near Mile Post 2, heading for Signal Butte, on a cold fall morning. #25 has been freshly restored to it's as-built paint scheme for a Martin Hanse... (more)

McCloud River Railroad #25 chuffs out of McCloud, heading for Lookout, on a cold fall morning. #25 has been freshly restored to it's as-built paint scheme for a Martin Hansen photo charter.

Pere Marquette 1225, built in 1941, as viewed through the windshield of a 1951 Chevy pickup. Fred needs to clean his windshield, a bug splot covers up the Wabash lettering on the second box car!

Pere Marquette 1225 and two Chevy pickup trucks are the feature performers for yet another great runby as SRI entertains a group of visiting British Railfans.

Pere Marquette 1225 gets a spin on the Owosso turntable before being put to bed, all ready for another day showing off for visiting British railfans.

The night hostler cleans the headlight and numberplate as Pere Marquette 1225 is put to bed after a day pulling a photo freight for visiting British railfans.

SL&RG #18 (ex LS&I #18) is coming around the Teardrop loop, just below the summit at Fir, on a Steam Loco Safari Tour charter freight.

SL&RG #18 (ex LS&I #18) heads into a dusty sunrise just east of Alamosa on a Steam Loco Safari Tours charter freight.

SL&RG #18 (ex LS&I #18) climbs the steeper east side of La Veta Pass, about a half mile below the summit at Fir, on a Steam Loco Safari Tour photo freight.

SL&RG #18 (ex LS&I #18) approaches the loop on the west side of La Veta Pass, with a Steam Loco Safari Tours charter freight. Photo taken from just below the tracks on the upper level.

As the fog begins to lift, Pere Marquette 1225 charges south down the old NYC line from Saginaw to Jackson on a Steam Loco Safari Tours charter.

A local farmer stops to pick up his mail as 1225 cruises past him, heading south on the Ann Arbor mainline, on a charter organized by Steam Loco Safari Tours of the UK.

Finally past a series of slow orders, Pere Marquette 1225 kicks up her heels at Brent Creek, heading for Saginaw on a Rail America company special on the Huron & Eastern.