Branch line freight at Conway. Conway Scenic Railroad's beefy Canadian National 0-6-0 works to assemble a demonstration branch line freight train in the yard at Conway, NH during the railro... (more)

Steam at Crawford's Notch. The cell phones come out among the hikers and other visitors to Crawford Notch State Park, as CN 7470 brings Conway Scenic's Notch Train into Crawford's Notch Sta... (more)

Charging west at 2nd Iron. With just a touch of blue sky showing through, Conway Scenic's big 0-6-0 charges across 2nd Iron Bridge, hauling her special passenger excursion toward a schedule... (more)

Playing through. Proper golf etiquette dictates that faster players be allowed to play through and it is arguable that right this second, Conway Scenic's big switcher #7470 is definitely th... (more)

"Old Soldiers Never Die......" In the words of an old British Army Song, "They just fade away." Such is the case with some of the retired steam locomotives on the Mt. ... (more)

The quintessential "Little Engine That Could." With a full tender of coal and water, MWRC #9 chugs slowly past my camera position pushing its lone coach toward the boarding platform adjacen... (more)

A slow crawl. After coaling and watering their locomotive, the crew of the Mt. Washington Cog Railway's 2:30 PM steam departure makes the slow crawl from the coal bunker to the platform are... (more)

Coaling 2019 style. In the 10 years since I last visited the Mt. Washington Cog Railway, things have changed a bit. Gone is the massive coal pile that used to exist on the north side of th... (more)

Launching for "the moon." Back in the 1850s, when New Hampshire native Sylvester Marsh first pitched the idea of building a railroad to the top of Mt. Washington to the State Legi... (more)

Springtime in the Pennsylvania woods. The trees in the Pennsylvania woodlands are just beginning to bud as the replica of Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train makes its way from Harrisburg to Ph... (more)

Chicago & North Western "Pioneer Coach." The latest piece of railroad equipment to emerge from the shops of David Kloke is this replica of a Welch & Launder day coach, built in 18... (more)

The Presidential Car "United States." Here's a nicely lit view of David Kloke's replica of President Abraham Lincoln's private railway car "United States". This car was built for the US Mi... (more)

Pondering what might have been..... Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant is alone with this thoughts and the remains of his former boss, as he ponders the reconstruction ahead, and what might have bee... (more)

With a little smoke. Our Fireman opens the firing lever just a bit to provide some gray smoke, as our replica of the Lincoln Funeral Train makes its way east toward Philadelphia on the very... (more)

In the cut. Running though the springtime woodlands of South Central Pennsylvania, the train bearing the remains of the 16th President of the United States carefully makes its way from Harr... (more)