Photographed during the Night Photo Session of the 2023 Winter Spectacular. East Broad Top 2-8-2 #16 exhales into the cool evening air as two men look on. The Mikado was just reborn after a nearly... (more)

In between the 12:00 and 2:00 inter Spectacular excursions, the crew of recently restored EBT Mikado #16 gives the engine a quick look over. The crew is checking the bearing temps the old fashion ... (more)

Handsome articulated C&O 1309 simmers at the Cumberland Depot after a hard day of wowing fans on a photo charter put on by Lerro Productions.

On a Lerro Photo Charter we enjoyed multiple photo angles of 1309 entering Brush Tunnel. As smoke hangs in the air, 1309 backs out of Brush Tunnel after the first run by.

Locomotives galore gather around the turntable of the Durango roundhouse. The last coal burner, 481, simmers outside next to a 70s deco 476. 482 and 480 flank both sides of the frame as they under... (more)

AT&SF mail train number 7 hustles at 70 MPH, with 16 cars, east of Newton Kansas, on August 21st 1958. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A steam freight chuffs out of East Ely yard, while the massive Nevada Northern shop complex looks on. Scenes like this easily take a visitor back to the early 1900s.

AT&SF train 12, The Chicagoan, is seen east of Newton Kansas on January 21st 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

H-6 Class Mallet 2-6-6-2 steam locomotive #1309 built by Baldwin in 1949 enters Brush Tunnel on its way to Frostburg, MD. She was re-lettered in the Chesapeake & Ohio livery for a series of charte... (more)

A four unit F7 set leads nine cars, south of Denver in the 1960s. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF train 90, The Centennial State, is moving along at 50 MPH near Castle Rock, on August 14th 1949. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 4099 and ATSF 5029 are in charge of a 65 car freight east of Belen, on September 2nd 1946. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 3815 and ATSF E1 number 6 lead train 22, El Capitan, east of Raton in 1939. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Handy Dandy Railroad 310 brings a train of passengers through the last turn and onto the home stretch of their mile and a half fully contained railroad at Denton Farmmpark in North Carolina. The l... (more)

The Winter Park Express has gone through Big Ten Curve (the track in the background) and now rounds Blue Mountain as it gets ready to enter Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.