Timber! Just north of Bay City, OR and only yards from Tillamook Bay, Polson Logging Co. Mikado #2 eases past stacks of freshly cut timber on a little-used section of former Southern Pacifi... (more)

Here is a new railroad for Railpictures, this 2-8-2 number 601 was built for the Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a... (more)

SOO 1003 thunders East through Burnett with a photo charter.

SOO 1003 thunders East past the barn near Rolling Prairie with a photo charter.

SOO 1003 thunders East through Beaver Dam with a photo charter.

Southern Railway 4501 leads train 100 at the other end of the tunnel heading towards East Chattanooga

That 70's Show: Redux

Meanwhile, we've trucked on down the other side of 'The Great Divide' while still remaining in the time-warp to 1972, we find the newly created 'Cumbres a... (more)

That 70's Show

A near rivet counting perfect re-creation of the 1970s era Silverton train heads south over 'Twin Bridges', a 1960's era realignment on the Silverton Branch when... (more)

McCloud River 19 goes through restoration at the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum in Sugarcreek, Ohio. If you haven't been to this museum, it is well worth the trip.

Pickup for Silverton...

A near rivet counting perfect re-creation of the 1970s era Silverton train is guided to an easy stop by Brakeman Nick Battelo giving the hand signs to t... (more)

It would be impossible to record this scene today for two reasons. First, there are no more steam locomotives running in India and second, the meter gauge line on the right of the picture has been... (more)

On a brilliant autumn afternoon, C&TS #484 backs its freight onto the wye at Bighorn. After turning, our Toltec Rattler Redux special will continue on westbound for the return trip to Chama.

More from the recent Toltec Rattler Redux charter on the C&TS... as we continued down out of the high country, we gradually moved out of snowy territory. As our freight approached Bighorn siding a... (more)

More from the Toltec Rattler Redux on the Cumbres & Toltec. What luck to have the event happen the day after a snowstorm which left the high country with a nice dusting. This allowed me to get a... (more)

In the fall of1972, the fledgling Cumbres & Toltec RR organized their first ever photo freight, dubbed the Toltec Rattler. 50 years later the Toltec Rattler Redux, an event commemorating that fir... (more)