Shortly before sunrise the 489 and a work train make a photo runby at Lava. In the background the San Luis Valley is covered by fog with a few hill tops looking like islands. Our train was heade... (more)

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One of the CSD two-cylinder 4-8-2s No 475.189 steams through the Svitavou valley with the 12.25 Ceska Trebova to Brno stopping train. Skoda built 147 of these locos in 1947-50.

Light maintenance on steamlocomotive E 2/2 # 1 from 1910, the former works locomotive of the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM), now in private hands. On this day, the locomotive made a shut... (more)

Another steamlocomotive of the famous "01.5" series of the former Deutsche Reichsbahn of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) belongs to the austrian association OeGEG (Oesterreichische ... (more)

Immelbom-Eisenach

Steam returns to the Buchanan Branch... For the first time in over 55 years, steam returns to the N&W Buchanan Branch on the head end of an NS and TVRM sponsored public excursion. Enroute t... (more)

The restoration work continues on Cotton Belt 819 inside the Arkansas RR Museum in Pine Bluff. I do not know when the restoration work on this beautiful looking locomotive is scheduled to be comp... (more)

Shuttling Timber. After dropping a load of fresh timber at a nearby sawmill, Mt. Emily Shay #1 crosses the Crooked River with her string of empty log bunks, headed back to the high country.... (more)

Just after returning from a trip back east, Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 No. 3985 shows some road dirt highlighting its massive boiler. After spotting a couple of cars, the locomotive will back into the ... (more)

Murder on the Orient Express
Dame 230G 353 fares well, playing an instrumental role in the movie "Murder on the Orient Express" after the famous Agatha Christie novel. The engine appea... (more)

The Stump Dodger in its element. Because of the extensive gold dredging along the Powder River in the early 1900s, much of the 5-mile right of way of the current Sumpter Valley Railroad is ... (more)

In one of the few times I ever saw this engine runnng with a clear stack the train is westbound on a beautiful spring day with a great great excursion. These is such a fine class of locomotives a... (more)

The story of Ribblehead Viaduct is the stuff of legend. It cost 100 lives of the 'navvies' that built it between 1870 and 1874 and as many more amongst their wives and families living in the shant... (more)