V&T #22 meets.....V&T #22! The Conductor on McKeen Motor Car #22 stands in the gangway as his "train" holds the main loop track, awaiting the passage of Locomotive #22 "Inyo&... (more)

Heading south to Minden. The Virginia & Truckee's high-stepping, ten-wheeler makes a southbound run out of Carson City, taking a mixed train south toward the southern terminus of the line a... (more)

V&T Survivor: "DAYTON" Of the 29 steam locomotives that served the Virginia & Truckee during its life as a common carrier, 9 have survived in preservation. This beautiful, 1873-vi... (more)

Ain't she sweet? Virginia & Truckee Locomotive #22 "Inyo" makes a morning runby on the "back 40" at the Nevada State Railroad Museum for the cameras of a Lerro Productio... (more)

Queen of the Short Lines......proclaims the crest on V&T Caboose 25, as her short freight makes its way across the Crown Point Fill, just prior to stopping at Gold Hill Station. The Virgini... (more)

A little late-day glint at Donovan. We're just a few minutes from alpine sunset and barely 200 yards north of Donovan siding as we watch a V&T freight powering its way up the average 2.2% g... (more)

The V&T Steam Line-Up. During our 2020 Lerro Productions Charter on the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, we were fortunate to be able to get a quick look at both of the line's steam engines tog... (more)

Virginia & Truckee #29. There were 27 locomotives originally built for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Nine of these locomotives survive, all of which are in museums. When Robert Gray be... (more)

The crookedest short-line in America. Just north of American Flat Tunnel, a V&T Freight runs compass south as it races toward the mining town of Gold Hill....which is visible above and dire... (more)

Steamscape: Crown Point. The reconstructed Virginia & Truckee Railroad is one of my favorite steam operations in all of the US. Why? Well, because it is one of the few places where you c... (more)

Tunnel #4: The "Yellow Jacket' Tunnel. V&T Locomotive #29 bursts out of the East Portal of Tunnel #4, known on the original V&T as the "Yellow Jacket Tunnel", as she runs th... (more)

Long shadows at Donovan. The alpine sunset is fast-approaching and the afternoon shadows are getting very long as V&T Locomotive #29 takes a freight north past Donovan, en route to Gold Hil... (more)

Steamscape: Crown Point Fill. V&T Locomotive #29 charges north with her freight across the wide-open plateau that is the Crown Point Fill. The geography in the town of Gold Hill, NV has bee... (more)

A time-honored tradition: The Burning of Rome. Back in the 1940s, when legendary railroad photographers Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg spent their days photographing operations on the Virgi... (more)