North Pole Express 2021 After taking a year off due to COVID, the Friends of the 261 brought back the North Pole Express trips for 2021. Milwaukee Road 261 is sharing duties with E9 32A... (more)

Milwaukee Road 261 has just arrived at the "North Pole" with the 4:30 North Pole Express. From this angle, only the Christmas lights on the cab give away the fact that 261 has been deco... (more)

Up 4014 rolls west over the Gasconade River on the Jeff City Sub.

The American Freedom train arrived in southern California on December 22, 1975, and the train was on display at the Los Angeles County Fair Grounds from the 23rd until the 30th. In the midst of A... (more)

The C&O's J3-a Greenbrier No. 614 on the partially-restored Erie RR turntable in Port Jervis. Built by Lima in 1948 with 27-1/2 X 30 inch cylinders, 72 inch drivers, and 255 psi boiler pressure; ... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 departs Los Angeles Union Station for the second Saturday in a row. This train is headed to San Bernardino for that city's "Railroad Days" celebration. Behind the Baldwin 4... (more)

Reading T-1 No. 2102 leads a special train commemorating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company (LSRR) past Pulpit Rock, where preacher... (more)

Night is falling at Hinton WV. We are cold, wet and tired but extremely happy. It's 1985 and we have been chasing a steam engine pulling a loaded coal train all day long in the snow! 614 has been ... (more)

464-202 and 434-2186, double departure from Jaromer station

611 is passing the former Norfolk & Western East End Shops where she was built in May 1950. The shops have been closed by Norfolk Southern and now stand deserted.

Reading And Northern. Reading and Northern Railroad 2102 (T-1, 4-8-4) is getting closer to its next life on the rails. After being built a Class I10sa 2-8-0 Consolidation by Baldwin in 1923... (more)

MILW 261 was detached from the train for display while all the passengers got off for lunch at Bongards.

Front Porch View

Some residents in Montgomery, West Virginia come to their porch to watch Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 and its tool cars roll past. I believe that the crew dropped t... (more)

Smoke and steam cloak Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 and its tool cars as it steams west through Cotton Hill, West Virginia with a train of West Virginia coal.

Skirting the frozen New River, Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 works westbound at Hawk’s Nest, West Virginia.