Though she's small, Flagg Coal 75 set fires along the drought striken ROW in a big way. The museum's fire crew with a water tank on a speeder (seen just over the nose of the fire truck) could not ... (more)
Engine 484 is in the lead and just beginning the decent down Cumbres pass to Osier station for Lunch. Firebox cinders started a trackside fire that will soon be put out by the crew that follows th... (more)
Sparks fly and a small volcano erupts as a rail joint is welded.
Norfolk Southern intermodal train 22W, is crossing the diamond at CP 285, leaving Toledo, Oh., with NS 8382 throwing flames and smoke, hiding the second unit NS 9360 and the train, as it passes ea... (more)
M of W worker makes a field weld on newly laid rail behind the passenger station in Williamson, WV.
An oil-burning XA class Pacific waiting to enter Kundian shed yard is illuminated by the glow from its own fire - supplemented by multiple fill-in flashes from the pretty pathetic flash guns we ha... (more)
An SY Mikado bats cars back and forth on the yard tracks but the real interest has to be the cauldron car receiving its fiery lading in a dark corner of the huge steel complex in Anshan. As a rar... (more)
The fireman, David, shovels coal quickly into #190 as the train makes its way around "Roundhouse Mountain".
Starting to blow carbon out of the cylinders. Shot 192519 is later in the sequence.
First time in my life I had a chance to see dancing flames in the steam locomotive's boiler.
NS 23G with ex-Conrail now NS 8210 belching FLAMES on this foggy morning.
Return trip of first P&W train to Bow NH on the Pan Am Railroad passes through the Medical City Tunnel. Photo taken from the Union Station platform.
At 22:53 the kids (boys ages 7, 7, and 5), still up as they are wired on an intoxicating blend of "Smores", the excitement of the campfire on a short weekend camping trip, and railroading, get an ... (more)
A westbound train passes a Thermit welding crew preheating a mold in preparation of making a rail weld.
Three wrecked and burned GP40s sit on the siding at Nahant, just west of the yard. 2028-2053-2069.
