Soo Line 1003 is switching cars in preparation for a short trip to Slinger, WI.

Soo Line 1003 backs down the museum track to couple to a pair of vintage cabooses before bedding down for the night. The engine was being prepared for a trip five miles down the road to Slinger, W... (more)

RN 425 charges past a traffic jam, preparing to load passengers for the return trip to Reading during the October 19th fall colors special.

RN 425 simmers outside the Reading and Northern steam shops before another day of excursions the following day.

N&W Simmers at Shaffers Crossing the night before two days of excursions out of Roanoke.

Nickel Plate 765 rifles through a rare bucolic scene in Oak Forest, IL. The 2018 Joliet Rocket ran most of its METRA excursion mileage in urban settings.

A view from the engineer's seat of N&W 4-8-4 #611 as she simmers before another day of excursions out of Roanoke

N&W 611 simmers the night before 6 half-day excursions out of Roanoke on Memorial Day Weekend, 2017

After a spirited cab ride up Christianburg Grade, Ross Rowland converses with famed N&W author Lewis Ingles “Bud” Jeffries. Rowland is the famed part-owner of C&O 4-8-4 #614, and industry-reno... (more)

611 at the NCTM is not a rare occurrence anymore, but a J with a period-correct freight consist is. Here 611 backs under the Southern signals for a run-by of late 1950s vintage.

Veteran Pacific 152 awaits abrasive blasting before getting a full ultrasonic test to determine the scope of the work to be done before she can be returned to service. Visit http://www.kyrail.org/... (more)

NC Transportation Museum's 1959 Edsel poses next to the famous locomotive, nine years her elder during lunch at the 2016 Fired Up photo charter.

611 charges past Ron Clement's 1959 Ford Skyliner Convertible during the Fired Up Photo Charter held by Jim Wrinn of Trains Magazine.

Brady Sanker, veteran Kentucky Railway Museum steam crew member, works on preparing the flues in L&N 152 for removal. This marks the final work day on the engine in 2015, a year which saw the roll... (more)

It's the morning of May 17th, 2014, and steam is traveling south on the famous Southern "Rat Hole" line for the first time in nearly 20 years. The Ludlow to Danville trip was sponsored by the Tenn... (more)