The Empire Builder departs Portland. With a loud hiss of steam from her cylinder cocks, the Portland to Spokane segment of Great Northern's Empire Builder gets underway in the Portland Yard... (more)

In full afterburner! Looking a bit like she's got a JATO bottle stuffed in the back of her trailing truck, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle's big Northern #700 flies past the Oregon Rail Her... (more)

Running wind sprints. Doing photo run-bys with Spokane, Portland & Seattle #700 in the Portland Yard is a bit like taking an Indy Car to the drag races. We've got a machine that was built ... (more)

400 Tons of Baldwin Muscle. Weighing in at 871,550 lbs fully loaded with tender, and wielding just under 70,000 lbs of tractive effort, the massive Spokane, Portland & Seattle #700 sits ste... (more)

The Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad's survival depends on the dedication of it's volunteers to put on a class act. Here CN 8223 and the crew pose on some rare mileage in the Village of Coo... (more)

CN 8223 throttles up as it heads north with a cut of freight during the Steve Barry photo charter last fall.

Drifting down to Cumberland. A fleeting snow flurry temporarily dims the winter sunlight as Western Maryland Consolidation #734 drifts downhill over the old Cumberland & Pennsylvania Bridge... (more)

Angie Cracraft is the fireman for today’s run of the empty copper ore train. Angie sits on the fireman side arm rest as she pulls down on the rope to sound the locomotive bell with her right han... (more)

With the temperatures hovering just below freezing, two crew members get ready to call it a night as steam locomotive #93 and the rotary snow plow wait outside the locomotive shops before going in... (more)

On a cold February morning outside of Ely, Nevada, a large, white cloud of steams forms from Nevada Northern Railway's Baldwin steam locomotive #40. Delivered in July of 1910 to the Nevada Norther... (more)

Keep left of Fence: Brush Tunnel Westbound. It's a small sign, but a serious warning. The 914 ft. long Brush Tunnel is the one place on the Great Allegheny Passage Rail Trail where the tr... (more)

One last ride. Western Maryland Consolidation #734 rides the Frostburg Turntable as the engine is turned during a Lerro Productions Freight Charter in February of 2016. The locomotive per... (more)

Frostburg Local. A short Western Maryland Freight winds its way around the contours of Piney Mountain, through a location known as "Lap" on its morning run from Cumberland to Fros... (more)

The unsung heroes. Silently standing by day and night, ready to serve their community when the call comes, the fellows pictured here don't normally get a lot of attention. Fortunately, on t... (more)

Westbound at Helmstetter's Curve. Pounding upgrade in the hills west of Cumberland, a Western Maryland Freight negotiates the iconic horseshoe curve that has assumed the name of the family ... (more)