Cascade Rails 2011, this year's NRHS convention, featured a night photography session led by the Steve Barry. Steve is recognized as a master of flash photography for railroad subjects, and this ... (more)

The first of three revenue trips for the 4449 during the NRHS Convention in Tacoma, WA. Here she is racing along the Puget Sound and headed for a whole bunch of congestion in Tacoma.

SP 4449 heads north with it's NRHS special toward Tacoma, WA. Here it is seen rounding the curve at Castle Rock.

SP 4449 pulling a NRHS Convention Special arrives in Downtown Tacoma. Passing the Tempco Export Elevator and Half Moon Yard, the train is only a few minutes from it's destination.

Southern Pacific 4-8-4 4449 is on her way from Portland, OR to Tacoma, WA for Cascade Rails 2011, this year's NRHS convention. The train has just crossed the swing bridge over the Columbia Riv... (more)

SP 4449 leaves the elevators of Lakota, ND, behind as it charges eastward across the northern plains in July 2009.

Southern Pacific Daylight #4449 overtakes a pack of chasers leaving even it's own tender struggling to keep up! A pan at 1/13th.

In looking back though my photos, I found this gem from 2009 of the 4449 on its eastbound run to Train Festival in Michigan, seen here in Browning, MT after crossing Marias Pass.

Steam and the City. With downtown Portlland, OR as a background, SP 4449 pulls one of the 2010 Holiday Express trains for the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation. The trains are a yearly event, and fu... (more)

Travelling through the "urban canyon" along the Willamette River in Portlland, OR, SP 4449 pulls one of the 2010 Holiday Express trains for the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation. The trains are a y... (more)

A scene not to often photographed, here SP 4449 sits inside the MILW 261 shops in Saint Paul under going some routine Maintenance before it finishes its trip back home after attending Train festiv... (more)

Daylight Delights! World famous Southern Pacific 4449 comes into the northern outskirts of Owosso during the first day of Trainfestival 2009.

Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation's Holiday Express operated the first two weeks in December this year. There are lots of "Santa Trains", but not many of them use 4-8-4's, and only one has world fam... (more)