NKP 765 leads an employee special across the Rockville Bridge making for a silhouette photo during the setting sun

Friends of the Rail's pretty little Berkshire was designed and built after WWII to operate lightly laid branch lines. One hundred were built.

With Santa at the controls, the North Pole Express races toward Ashley. Pacing shot at 1/40th.

The final Friday night run of the North Pole Express led me to an old favorite daylight spot, the Carland Elevator. With flashes in tow, this is no longer a spot limited to light. Lit with 3 Canon... (more)

Two weeks after I pulled a beyond belief rookie move by leaving my camera off as the train was approaching and not realizing until too late, I was given another chance at this spot to catch the Pe... (more)

Photographer- unknown- from my personal collection. After her brief career on the Southern Rwy Steam Program, former C&O Kanawha 2716 sat in Birmingham, AL and was eventually brought up to Ind... (more)

The "Polar Express" rolls through Carland, MI., passing it's "landmark" grain elevator.

Pere Marquette 1225 accelerates in a plume of steam as it departs Owosso's yard limits on the Great Lakes Central mainline. The first few cars in the consist are ex Metra Commuter cars painted fo... (more)

Pere Marquette 1225 pulls it's first North Pole Express train of the season past the old Robbins Furniture Warehouse in Owosso, Michigan.

In the midst of last minute repairs to the running gear, a 765 crew member goes about his work to get the engine prepared for the trip home. The task, requiring lifting the locomotive, was perfo... (more)

Nickel Plate 765 deadheads on her way to West Virginia for a Norfolk Southern employee special, running with a clean stack through Bucyrus

Pere Marquette sits on the turntable on a very cold March morning awaiting to hit the rails on an excursion that was ran short due to the fact that the Michigan State department of Roads were worr... (more)

Pere Marquette sits on the turntable on a very cold March morning awaiting to hit the rails on an excursion that was ran short due to the fact that the Michigan State department of Roads were worr... (more)

Nickel Plate 765 highballs out of stop in Tyone, on its way though Altoona. This is the third and final trip of the 2013 Altoona Curve Special operated by Norfolk Southern and the Fort Wayne Railr... (more)