A Tear to My Eye

I'll admit to choking up a bit as 16 came up through the yard. This was a scene that I last saw in 2010. My only images of the first tourist era are a crappy cel... (more)

Nevada Northern 81 steams up in the engine house early in the morning.

Steam at the East Broad Top Railroad's Winter Spectacular.

tourist train operated by ABPF

In a view cleared out by the 2012 "Goblin Fire", Extra 476 rolls by photographers at MP 480.5 with Pigeon and Turret Peaks standing 13,000 feet tall behind the train.

Fireman Kylah Breeden has just finished filling the tender of 476 with water at Tank Creek and lifts the groundwater-fed spout back into its resting position.

As the stars rise in the newfound darkness of yet another chilly night, the roundhouse crew of the Durango & Silverton create some warmth as they drop the ashes of the last coal-burning steam loco... (more)

Rumbling through Industrial Road, 2102 and 425 are seen crossing Industrial Road on the former Central Railroad of New Jersey portion of RBMN trackage. This portion of track is "dark territor... (more)

Old 1889 0-6-0 British Neilson Reid .

Getting the steamer ready for opening day.

#81 steams towards the ready track on a brilliant Nevada morning

Nevada Northern #81 rolls past a brilliant mountain view with the Steptoe Valley Flyer passenger train

Rio Grande Southern 20 leads an extra mixed freight over Ferguson Trestle, named after the man that was hanged off of it, as the sun peaks over part of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the far di... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 1309 is an H-6 "Mallet" with a wheel configuration of 2-6-6-2. It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949 to haul coal from the fields in West Virginia. It only served ... (more)

Locomotive 81 has the Steptoe Valley Flyer at track speed as it passes a phonebooth at a passing track