This was the final Union Pacific train that was to be guided by the nearly 100 year old US&S Style B semaphores at Coyote Siding (MP 14527) near Carrizozo, New Mexico, on September 20, 1999. Signa... (more)

Metro Rail car seen here being delivered to the Metro Gold Line facilities in Los Angeles in March of 2003.

The westbound lanes of the Interstate 10 witnessed an unusual commuter on Sunday, April 17th when restored steam locomotive AT&SF 3751 returned home from a weekend event in San Bernardino. Unusual... (more)

Undoubtedly one of the most memorable featured attractions at the California State Railroad Museums Railfair 99 event was the Buckingham Lining Bar gang. The Buckingham Lining Bar Gang is a group ... (more)

The secret life of a switch lantern is reviled in this close up view of a Adlake kerosene fired switch lamp photographed at the East Ely freight yards on Feb. 10th, 2009. Steve Crise Photo, © Scr... (more)

January 25th, 2014. Track crews begin slicing the rails of Metrolink's San Bernardino mainline in preparation of sliding them a few feet south to connect the panel track where the 4014 awaits to m... (more)

The 3751 lends a hand in the production of The Fabulous Esquires Big Band CD titled Full Steam Ahead. The train was cold for the photo shoot. We chose to use the cheaper option of rented fog machi... (more)

4014_0049 January 25th, 2014. In the early evening hours before the big move, Union Pacific police guard 4014 as she waits for her return to the US rail network for the first time in 52 years. Sev... (more)

The long and winding road. 4014 negotiated a tight and twisting S curve as it continues to make rapid progress out of the Fairplex parking lot.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway steam locomotive engineer (ret.) George Clous studies the line ahead as the 3751 made a service stop in Barstow, Calif on her way home from Sacramento after a... (more)

Former Southern Pacific steam locomotive GS 4 # 4449, built by the Lima Locomotive Works of Lima Ohio for the SP in 1941, is seen here on the point of the American Freedom Train at Chatsworth Cali... (more)

Louis Ketring, Redondo Tower Operator, Redondo Junction, 1999. Steve Crise Photo. © scrise.com

October 17, 2020. Steam flows through the cylinders of NNRY 81 for the first time in 65 years! The pistons and running rear have not yet been installed on the locomotive so many decades of rust an... (more)

The “Rose Bowl Special” headed by Santa Fe FP 45 # 101 crosses the Los Angeles River in the Lincoln Heights area of downtown Los Angeles on January 1st, 1991. The single track steel bridge is ... (more)

January 26th, 2014. 2:52:58 AM, 4014 rolls down the National Rail Network for the first time in 52 years! The front wheel of the pony truck is still on the panel track while the rest of the locomo... (more)