Nick Scheresky uses an acetylene torch to cut off a bolt on the frame of one of the Nevada Northern's original wood boxcars. Keeping hundred year old equipment in service is the name of the game a... (more)

Engineer Nick eases the largest locomotive on the Durango and Silverton's roster around the tight cliffs of the legendary High Line.

For the first time in 69 years, Nevada Northern 81 is under steam, pulling a freight train. As we were turning 93 on the wye, I asked my engineer to stop next to 81 to snap a quick picture of the ... (more)

Union Pacific's flanger set has just finished a run over Donner pass and has returned to the Snowfighters home base in Truckee.

Amtrak's California Zephyr splits the Southern Pacific signals as it accelerates out of the resort town of Truckee.

A westbound manifest streaks past the DPU of an eastbound manifest on a pleasant evening.

Just a few yards from where the Eureka and Palisade narrow gauge railroad once ran, a UP manifest thunders across the Humboldt River.

Nevada Northern 109 has just been fired up for some switching, and the 244-D prime mover is trying to warm up in the 20 degree air.

A former Seaboard Coast Line SD40-3 leads two other EMDs past one of the cotton mills in Shorter, Al. As seen from the tufts scattered on the ground, this is a messy operation.

The biggest and smallest diesels on the railroad make quite a pair. The 204 has just had a 92-day inspection completed, and is ready for a bath. The 25 ton GE is used as a shop switcher and makes ... (more)

Alabama State Docks' Genset switchers pull a 100+ car train out of the yard, passing by the Carnival Fantasy. Nobody knew at the time, but this would be one of the last voyages the ship would ever... (more)

The city of Elko was born a railroad town. The Central Pacific and Western Pacific both laid tracks through the heart of downtown, but in the 1980s the tracks were moved outside of town. Luckily a... (more)

Passengers mill about the platform, looking at the 111 year old steam locomotive that will soon pull them on a 15 mile round trip.

After a successful first fireup, Nevada Northern 81 has just had her ashpan emptied for the first time in over half a century. The humble GE 25 tonner is a fantastic shop switcher, but did have tr... (more)

The first snowflakes of winter are starting to fall as Nevada Northern 93 in her Kennecott Consolidated Copper markings takes coal. Unfortunately, the original coaling tower is out of service awai... (more)