ATSF 3460 leads a twelve car Fast Mail Express, ATSF train 7, doing 60 MPH, just east of La Junta Colorado, on June 4th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Milwaukee Road 261 pulls the annual Gourmet Express past the famous 'windmill shot' in Augusta, Minnesota

Iron Horse Society's North Pole Limited passing the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel.

BLW 0-6-0 #26, pulling up to the edge of the turntable at Steamtown, with Iron Horse Society's North Pole Limited.

The Friends of the 261 North Pull Express makes its short run down the tracks from the Saint Paul Union Depot to the "North Pole" set up just east of the station. In the lead is the Nort... (more)

RBNM 425 departs the Reading Outer Station

Lebanon, Oregon is named after Lebanon, Tennessee. One is home of the Albany and Eastern Railroad and the other is home to the Nashville and Eastern Railroad. Coincidence? Oh look, Christmas light... (more)

Stepping out over Deep River Creek. Valley Railroad Consolidation #97 rumbles across the steel bridge over Deep River Creek as she hauls the 2PM North Pole Express toward North Chester, CT.... (more)

Merry Christmas from Maine! WW&F Fireman Dan Malkowski braves the sub-freezing air as he wrestles the big spout on the Sheepscot Water Tank into position to fill the cistern on Locomotive #... (more)

Steam To Follow. Another recent addition to the SMS Lines fleet, SLRS 9 (née-USATC 4023, 0-6-0, Alco, 10/1942) has already been fired up to test its boiler. There is still cab and cosmetic... (more)

The engineer can be seen refilling Vulcan 5 water tank at the depot in the village before making another run around the loop

ATSF train 17, the Super Chief, is being assisted by 2-10-2 1701, west of Trinidad Colorado, in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Welcome to the top of New England! The shadows are getting long and there's only perhaps 30 minutes of daylight left as passengers alight from their Cog Railway train on the "roof of N... (more)

One, long whistle for Lizzie. To herald their arrival on the summit, the locomotives of the Mt. Washington Cog Railway typically sound one, long whistle (or horn, in the case of the diesels... (more)

Reading & Northern 425 leaves Port Clinton early in the morning on its second-to-last day of operation.