An unusual meeting of three SLM cogwheel steam locomotives at the Furka station (2,163 m / 7,096 ft above sea level) on the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB): HG 3/4 #9 "Gletschhorn" from 1914, HG... (more)

An unusual meeting of three SLM cogwheel steam locomotives at the Furka station (2,163 m / 7,096 ft above sea level) on the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB): HG 3/4 #9 "Gletschhorn" from 1914, HG... (more)

A timeless scene: cogwheel steam locomotive HG 3/4 #4 of the Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke (DFB), built by SLM in 1913, with its passenger train is crossing the Steinstafel viaduct. Note the people ... (more)

The "Mountain" is open. Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Locomotive #9 makes its southbound charge up the grade known as "The Ladder" toward Alna Center, hauling the f... (more)

Dardanelle & Russellville #8. Standing guard by the entrance to the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City is a locomotive that I've seen a number of times, but never had the opportuni... (more)

Reading 2102 wyes its 18-car passenger train on the newly-built Lehigh River Bridge at Nesquehoning Junction.

A loaded coal train is leaving Chengde.

Unfortunately for those familiar with CW McCall's song "The Silverton Train," the Animas River Gorge only finds itself 230-ish feet from rail to river, as opposed to the 400-feet McCall ... (more)

Reading 2102 fills the sky with black smoke as it pounds up the grade through Nesquehoning.

Reading 2102 blasts out of Tamaqua Tunnel with the final Iron Horse Ramble of 2022 with a thick plume of black smoke and its exhaust pounding off of the surrounding mountains.

NESQUEHONING THUNDER!!!! A sight and sound that needs to be experienced in person to truly be appreciated, former Reading T-1 #2102 tears apart the town of Nesquehoning, PA on its way back to Read... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 4-6-4 No. 490 rests on indoor display at the B&O Railroad Museum. 490 was built by ALCO in 1926 as a 4-6-2. It was converted to a 4-6-4 and streamlined in 1947, shortly befor... (more)

WMSR 1309 backs through the famed Helmstetter's Curve after a trip up to Frostburg.

The old steam L-3634 is hauling a touristic train from Moscow to Baykal

Departing Hillsdale, The Tri State Flyer crosses over the Iron Bridge at Hallett Street. After a busy three hour layover with the Little River 110, the train heads for Edon Ohio. The 100 foot lo... (more)