Florence & Cripple Creek 4-6-0 No. 20 was built by Schenectady in 1899. In 1916, F&CC No. 20 was sold to the Rio Grande Southern and it spent the next 35 years on the Silver San Juan Route. After ... (more)

Atlantic Coast Line K-14 Class 4-6-0 250 is a 1910 Baldwin built locomotive, one of only four surviving ACL steam locomotives. She was last used in service between Wilmington and Fayetteville, Nor... (more)

Early morning sunlight bathes N&W 1218 in a warm glow as she is serviced at Norfolk Southern's Simpson Yard in Jacksonville. Today's excursion is the Suwanee Steam Special, a round trip to Valdost... (more)

A visit to Markham Yard on Chicago's south side just before Christmas 1955 resulted in this picture. My railfan buddies father contemplates IC 2513 and 2511 as they sit on a roundhouse lead just a... (more)

In the waning days of steam, we made several trips to Burlington's Clyde Yard in Cicero to find steam survivors. On this beautiful sunny day we also saw steam's eventual replacement, EMD FT AB 109... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio K4 Class 2-8-4 2716 was one of a group of 26 built by Alco in 1944. She had 69" drivers, 26 x 34 inch cylinders, operated at 245 psi boiler pressure, and developed up to 69,368 l... (more)

Wabash F-6 Moguls were built in 1901-03 in a cross compound 4 cylinder arrangement, but soon after the large class of cross-compounds entered service most were rebuilt into F7 single expansion 2 c... (more)

In the waning days of steam, we made several trips to Burlington's Clyde Yard in Cicero to find steam survivors. After we spent some time near the roundhouse shooting the CB&Q O5a 4-8-4s, we heard... (more)

Growing up in Chicagoland, whenever the gates came down and we were stopped at a railroad crossing I couldn't wait until the train arrived. This image illustrates why. This is a Burlington crossin... (more)

Atlantic Coast Line K-14 Class 4-6-0 250 is a 1910 Baldwin built locomotive, one of only four surviving ACL steam locomotives. She was last used in service between Wilmington and Fayetteville, No... (more)

In the waning days of steam, we made several trips to Burlington's Clyde Yard in Cicero to find steam survivors. On this beautiful sunny day we were rewarded with CB&Q 5617 basking in the sun near... (more)

Almost every westbound Illinois Central freight would pause in Broadview to pick up or drop off a cut of cars from the IHB interchange. That was great from my point of view because I could sit bac... (more)

Elsdon Yard, on Chicago's southwest side, had a roundhouse and service facilities for Grand Trunk Western steam power until the end of the steam era. We visited the yard and found a good number of... (more)

Seaboard Air Line 2-8-0 No. 929 was the first of four locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1920 for the Charlotte Harbor & Northern. They were numbered 71-74. They had 54" drivers,... (more)

Just after sunrise in Birmingham, T&P 610 is attended to before passenger loading begins for a 7am departure for Chattanooga.