When No.6 works hard, its fire will sometimes flash back for a split second (like all oil burners). Here the engine is in the corner, pulling a heavy load upgrade to the Snipe Run depot. This phot... (more)

Thrashing about, this little monster of an engine shows off her German lines as she stomps up to the depot at Snipe Run.

German tank engine No. 16 pauses at Snipe Run with the freight train consist.

There is one small bridge on the Midwest Central line; this one, built in 1961 by a volunteer track crew from the CB&Q.

No. 6 steams past two Advance Rumley steam tractors working the Old Threshers sawmill.

No. 6 steams past the ex-CB&Q depot from Hillsboro, Iowa.

No. 6 is being steamed up on a muggy August morning

Steaming away from the enginehouse.

The "wrong" side of Shay No. 9 seen at South Station with a short freight train.

Ignore that motorhome in the background, and this scene looks like it could have been taken fifty years ago at the West Side Lumber Company.

Shay 9 departs North Station (Snipe Run) with a load of passengers bound for South Station. The Shay is the largest piece of steam equipment in operation during the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion,... (more)

Surry, Sussex & Southampton 2-6-0 No. 6 waits for the highball to leave South Station.

West Side Lumber Company No. 9 approaches the North Station at Snipe Run with a full load of passengers.

S&W 0-4-0T 16 and West Side Lumber Shay 9 rest outside the shop after a long day.

S&W 16, the Midwest Central's 1951 Henschel 0-4-0T, simmers outside the shop building on a warm evening. It had been running most of the day pulling a short freight train during the Midwest Old Th... (more)