Ex-Chessie SD50s are in the siding at North Reading Junction as the 425 Steam Special prepares to board passengers

Southern 154 pauses next to her shed for some quick repairs before continuing on toward Marbledale with the 1pm departure of the Christmas Lantern Express. Hard to believe this engine will be 130 ... (more)

Shrouded in steam, the Big Boy is putting on a show in the brisk cold morning air as they get ready to take the turn at Marshall.

Touring the system, the Big Boy blasts through the rural wooded landscape still covered in colorful fall foliage.

Blue hour at Ellamore. Just after sunset, Climax #9 poses with her hopper train in front of the Ellamore Depot.....OK, it's really the Cass Depot, with a little creative signage. Lighting... (more)

Departing Ellamore. Re-creating her days as a Middlefork Railroad Locomotive, Cass Climax #9 hauls a coal train past the "Ellamore" town limit. The real Ellamore is located on Co... (more)

Soo Line 1003 makes its back up move from the Wisonsin Auto Museum where it is kept, in Hartford, WI, to a location about a mile west to pick up Santa. Santa arrived on time at 1130 am in downtown... (more)

According to the locals the biggest thing to ever happen in Prescott in recent memory as big crowds showed up from all over the southeast to see UP's Big Boy depart Prescott in a cloud of steam to... (more)

Norfolk and Western 611 near Carpenters on the Strasburg Railroad with a freight. The photo freight and the girl on the tractor was organized by Lerro Productions and the railroad.

Shifting hoppers. The newly restored Climax #9 is seen here shifting some hoppers within the Cass Yard, as she works to make up her photo freight for the day. The lettering on the new Cli... (more)

Almost heaven.... There are very few places left in the world where on any given day, you can expect to see 3-5 hot steam locomotives. You can count those places on the fingers of one han... (more)

Passing the "green pond". DM&IR #332 charges past the algae-covered, "green pond" just west of Palmers, MN, on local freight run from Duluth to Two Harbors.