Another scoop on the grates. Fireman Art places another scoop of soft coal on the grates in the firebox of Mount Washington Railway Company #9 "Waumbek", as he fires the 11:30 AM ... (more)

The Challenger Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3985 inside the former Rock Island shop at Silvis, Illinois. Built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company, 3985 has been donated by Union Pacific R... (more)

Relics of the Steam Era Union Pacific 2-10-2 5511 and Union Pacific business car "Stanford" (ex-WP) inside the former Rock Island shop at Silvis, Illinois. These are two of several historic... (more)

Western Maryland 1309 rounds Helmstetter's Curve on a cool October morning.

Through the Paint Booth Union Pacific 2-10-2 5511 is eased into the backshop at Silvis on the evening of November 19, 2022. This historic locomotive has been donated by Union Pacific Railr... (more)

Everett Railroad 11 was the focus of Chris Lantz's November photo charter. The Mogul was recently converted to burn oil, and for the charter, the original plow it wore on the Bath & Hammondsport w... (more)

The 1949 fall harvest season was winding down when a group of friends went to visit Altoona on a warm November weekend. On a whim we decided to check out the Everett Railroad's daily local from Ho... (more)

Crossing Trout Brook. Here's a first-of-its-kind aerial look at Bridgton & Saco River #7, as she charges across Trout Brook on the WW&F Railway via the rare Howe Boxed Pony Truss Bridge, wh... (more)

Crossing the "turnpike." The Strasburg Rail Road's free-steaming N&W "Mollie" #475 lifts the pops as she takes the 11 AM passenger train across the little dirt farm road... (more)

“Nine Score and Four Years Ago”
Northern Central Railway’s “York” hauls a four coach passenger train south through Seitzville on the return leg of a Howard Tunnel excursion on ... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) leaves the roundhouse at the Colorado Railroad Museum. She will lead that day's Polar Express train, which will run passengers around the museum grounds in Golden,... (more)

Here is a new railroad for Railpictures, this 2-8-2 number 601 was built for the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a... (more)

Reading 2102 opens its cylinder cocks in preparation for leaving the steam shops.

A Nebraska sunrise casts a golden glow over UP Challenger locomotive 3985 and lead engine UP 5716 (ES44AC) as a westbound grain train meets the Hospital Train at Sidney.

"Class H-6 in a Hurry": O. Winston Link has a famous photo of a Class A in full charge outside of Blue Ridge, VA on the N&W Blue Ridge Grade in the late 1950s during the last years of N&... (more)