While walking around the station and yard in Durbin, I came across what remains of this old steam engine, which I think is a 3-Truck Heisler number 3.

A visitor from the North is returning to home, while having serious problems on the way. Once again, poor Hr1 1009 has ran out of coal and the crew is desperately trying to load logs in the tender... (more)

SP 4110 is street running with a twelve car Tehachapi, Southern Pacific train 56, in tow at 15 MPH, in 1937. Otto C. Perry photo, from my collection.

Outside the servicing facility near the base station on the Mount Washington Cog railway. Can anyone identify this loco.

ATSF train number 21, El Capitan, is seen near Wootton Colorado in 1944. ATSF 1797 and ATSF E6, number 13, have thirteen cars in tow doing 25 MPH on rugged Raton Pass. Otto Conrad Perry photo from... (more)

ATSF 1792 and ATSF 3767 are doing 30 MPH on Raton Pass, with a 20 car Chief, in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1794 and ATSF 4-8-4 3773 lead train 19, a fourteen car Chief, doing 25 MPH at Lynn New Mexico in 1945. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

Dodging lightning bolts on a photo charter is not the best of activities, but this shot would not have been possible without doing so. I figured the umbrella I was holding would help properly grou... (more)

Rio Grande Southern #20 (4-6-0) heads towards the depot at the Colorado Railroad Museum where it will lash up with vintage passenger cars for the museum's Polar Express train.

Back to the 1930s with NS-8107

Special steam train Siena-Monte Antico-Siena just left from Monte Antico station.

Reading 2102 opens its cylinder cocks in preparation for leaving the steam shops.

Ed Dickens, Senior Manager of Heritage Operations for Union Pacific Railroad, sits in the cab of UP 5511 as it heads east towards Silvas, Illinois. The 2-10-2 locomotive was built in 1923 by the ... (more)

A Nebraska sunrise casts a golden glow over UP Challenger locomotive 3985 and lead engine UP 5716 (ES44AC) as a westbound grain train meets the Hospital Train at Sidney.

"Class H-6 in a Hurry": O. Winston Link has a famous photo of a Class A in full charge outside of Blue Ridge, VA on the N&W Blue Ridge Grade in the late 1950s during the last years of N&... (more)