Reading 2102 accelerates across the Port Clinton Turntable as it heads for Tamaqua on a test run.

CP 2816 "Empress" departs the CPKC Humboldt Yard in Minneapolis, MN.

After turning its train at Tower A-5, CPR #2816 heads west through Franklin Park, IL before laying over in Bensenville Yard for the night.

Before each season, which begins this year on June 20, the cars on the Furka Mountain Steam Railway have to prove that their brakes are working perfectly. For this purpose, brake tests are carried... (more)

Observation Platform. A visit to Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania on June 29, 2016 found former Nickel Plate Road 759 (S-2 Berkshire, 2-8-4, Lima, 1944) flanked on... (more)

On a beautiful morning in the Twin Cities, CP 2816 makes its departure out of Pigs Eye Yard with a nice plume of smoke to boot. In charge of the Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour, the "Empre... (more)

The diesel passenger run poses briefly with the Chinese 2-8-2, which is slowly coming around, a process we got to witness firsthand in the cab. The "awakening" of a steamer is one of my... (more)

Loading? The FEC 148 poses at the Liberty Point Elevator as a storm front approaches.

Victory lap. For both the Empress and the photographer. In 2011, my last visit to see her in action was met with "diesel substitute" as she went down with repair. She was repaired, tes... (more)

The CPKC Golden Spike Special flies past the old grain elevator in Drake, ND.

Reading 2102 pulls into Port Clinton as it prepares to stop to pick up more passengers for its Iron Horse Ramble excursion.

UP #844 waits for the Big Boy to roll in to begin the Spike150 Celebration outside Ogden Station in Utah. This ceremony commemorated the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike at Pro... (more)

Thar She Blows! DMIR 332 was used for some switching moves and created quite a scene along Railroad Ave. near downtown Duluth, MN.

United States Sugar 4-6-2 148 leads a train over Lake Okeechobee in Moore Haven, Florida on the trains return trip to Clewiston. She was built in April 1920 by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) f... (more)

487 sitting in the shop