On the loop at Lava. Moments after dawn, a Denver & Rio Grande mixed train rounds the loop at Lava Tank, near MP 291.4, on its westbound run toward Chama, NM, via Cumbres Pass. The power t... (more)

US Sugar moved their first loads of sugar cane for the season from Moore Haven to the sugar mill in Clewiston on October 1st, using Pacific number 148 to mark the occasion.

US Sugar moved their first loads of sugar cane for the season from Moore Haven to the sugar mill in Clewiston on October 1st, using Pacific number 148 to mark the occasion.

NKP 765 gets some quick service at the Bellevue engine shops before taking a train east.

Engineer Nick eases the largest locomotive on the Durango and Silverton's roster around the tight cliffs of the legendary High Line.

For the first time in 69 years, Nevada Northern 81 is under steam, pulling a freight train. As we were turning 93 on the wye, I asked my engineer to stop next to 81 to snap a quick picture of the ... (more)

Nickel Plate 765 backs down from the engine house in Bellevue, ready for another day of caboose hops during the "Berkshires in Bellevue" event.

NKP 757 awaits its next assignment in the Bellevue shops.

"Steam & A Rock Crusher"

Former Hawaii Railway Company Baldwin Locomotive Works 2-4-2 #5 passes an antique New Holland Rock Crusher exhibit at the annual Connecticut Antique Machiner... (more)

Dollywood Express (ex White Pass & Yukon) 192 rolls down the 6% grade into the Village.

NKP 765 takes the steam special south to Akron.

Norfolk and Western locomotive 2156, Class Y6a, a compound Mallet, sits on display at the Museum's first night photography event. This locomotive was loaned to the Virginia Museum of Transporta... (more)

Mower Lumber Company's Shay number 4 with the camp car on the way to one of the logging camps in the mountains.

Bedded down under a blanket of stars. Five operational, narrow gauge steam locomotives, all of which were built before 1900, share the yard in Antonito, Colorado, at the start of the Cumbre... (more)

Another Harbinger

Another sign of the future of narrow gauge railroading in the intermountain west as Cumbres and Toltec #489 departs Antonito on a cloudless August day. The c... (more)