What was it the Engines said, Pilots touching,—head to head. Facing on the single track, Half a world behind each back? - Francis Bret Harte

July 4th 2011, Virginia and Truckee #22 'Inyo' built 1875, one of the finest steam engines in the USA

Now this is great steam on a cold January day, as Wilmington & Western 4-4-0 #98 crosses one of the many trestles along the line. Part of a Lerro Productions photo charter.

Wilmington & Western 4-4-0 #98 puts on a show crossing the trestle just past the Lancaster Pike crossing on a cold January day. Part of a Lerro Productions photo charter.

Eureka on the High Bridge. A late August afternoon finds the 1875-vintage Eureka & Palisade Number 4 hauling a passenger extra across the famous High Bridge above the Animas River at Tacoma... (more)

A Wilmington and Western train makes it's way over the river and through the woods of Delaware en route to Mount Cuba, DE. Originally, the line was meant to continue to Oxford, PA with a connecti... (more)

Steamscape - Winter at Red Clay Creek. Delaware's Wilmington & Western Railroad follows the Red Clay Creek on its journey from Greenbank to Hockessin, crossing the waterway no fewer than 9 ... (more)

America's last operational, standard gauge 4-4-0 plies the former B&O Landenberg Branch in the livery of the Wilmington & Western Railroad during this 2011 Lerro Productions Charter. In th... (more)

Toledo and Detroit 16 (4-4-0) on display at Illinois Railway Museum.

Steam, Snow and Sunlight. The early morning sun highlights the steamy departure of the Wilmington & Western Railroad's Locomotive 98 from the Marshallton Shops. America's only standard ga... (more)

Central Pacific 4-4-0 replica Leviathan draws a lot of cameras and attention after following Monticello Railway Museum's passenger train back to Nelson's Crossing. The passenger train, with IC GP1... (more)

Silverton Departure. Conductor George Swift is silhouetted against a cloud of steam as he watches his Durango-bound passenger extra switch onto the main line at Silverton Depot. The power... (more)

V&T Survivor: DAYTON. Of the 29 steam locomotives that served the Virginia & Truckee during its life as a common carrier, 9 have survived in preservation. This beautiful, 1873-vintage 4-4-... (more)

Proud Nevada Native. She may have been "born" in Pennsylvania, and she might be visiting Colorado, but whenever she travels, her owner leaves no doubt as to where home is. Whenever Eureka ... (more)

A view of an extraordinarily positioned exhibit at the Dutch National Railway Museum (Het Spoorwegmuseum) in Utrecht, The Netherlands. This 4-4-0 locomotive, no. 107 was built for the Dutch Rhine ... (more)