The engineer leans out the window and receives a blast of chilly September air to the face as he rounds the final bend before the US Rt 50 bridge.

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Southern Railway, SOU 630, Alco 2-8-0 crossing the South Chickamauga Creek, returning to Grand Junction Station in Chattanooga, Tennessee on May 5, 2024.

The UP Steam Crew poses on the Big Boy after speeches by then-CEO Lance Fritz and former Utah Governor Gary Herbert at the Spike150 Ceremony in Ogden.

DMIR 332 works on switching some cars around along Railroad Street near the waterfront at Duluth, MN.

Surrounded by her sister mikados, East Broad Top 16 rolls into the roundhouse at Rockhill Furnace.

Canadian Pacific 2816 leading the Final Spike Steam Tour across the Mississippi River at Sabula

D&RGW 2-8-8-2 3554 is in charge of a fifty four car westbound freight near Plainview Colorado in 1943. Note the raised smoke deflector. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Louisville & Nashville train number 99, the Pan American, is departing Louisville Kentucky at 25 MPH in 1934. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

EBT 16 Eases into the historic Rockhill Roundhouse.

The Empress heading westbound on the Houston sub.

Canadian Pacific 2816 leading the Final Spike Steam Tour in Davenport, Iowa after the display event

Working. The NC Transportation Museum put on a great night photo session as part of the commemoration of the roundhouse's centennial anniversary. Here, the volunteers work to turn the 542 ... (more)

Track gangs complete work on newly completed rails as EBT 16 rolls towards the end of the line.

East Broad Top 16 eases into Rockhill Furnace, PA on an overcast November Afternoon

Engineer Shane Frederickson looks ahead as Reading 2102 pulls out of the Reading & Northern Steam Shop before its first excursion of 2024.