The extreme winter conditions have created the 'Abominable Pony' out of NS 8345. A crew member braves the horizontal snow to attend to one of the many switches that will need to be cleaned before... (more)

Full crew. Carlos Llamas, engineer, Mr. Bear, assistant engineer, and Jake Vigil, fireman, on the March 12-13 Friends of the C&TS snow plowing special. I understand Carlos is writing a book about... (more)

Crew awaiting for coupling some iron ore cars on our train in the Zouerate upskirt of the loading plant area.

Storm's A Coming!

Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is, in fact, the light of an on coming train! In this case, it's the obligatory run though with Western Maryl... (more)

NS SD90MAC 7292 recently had its cab and electrical cabinet removed.

New Albula Glieder Zug (AGZ, Articular train for the Albula line) for the Rhaetian Railway is onloaded from the standard gauge lowfloor cars to the 1 meter gauge, where diesellocomotive Gmf 4/4 # ... (more)

Putting the branch in branchline, WICT 615 (ex-NYC 5667) heads west from Waukesha on its way to Milton. Today, this is an important line on the WSOR.

"Metro through a building" is not easily seen outside Chongqing.

Four-legged Traindriver assistant. Train's driver with his dog named Bucks moves TU6D narrow gauge locomotive at peateries of Mezinovsky narrow gauge railway in Vladimir region. D... (more)

None of these 12 kids had ever seen a real steam train before. The excitement and noise when No.3321 came into view was incredible... Background: A Ceres Rail Excursion from Ceres to... (more)

"The American Freedom Train Eagle"

RDG #2101 toured the eastern portion of the United States as the "American Freedom Train" between April 1, 1975 to September 1976. ... (more)

Looking rather incomplete, AT&SF Pacific #1316 waits quietly in the yard at Rusk. Her new boiler is on site, but an engineering oversight means it will need rebuilt before it even has its first fi... (more)

View from the observation car at the rear of the Andean Explorer (see also #566582): we pass the market beside and on the track at Juliaca

"Jordan spreader" in action

A participant in the Great Locomotive Chase during the Civil War, Western & Atlantic locomotive 'Texas' is at the NCTM for a cosmetic restoration and research. At the conclusion of the restoration... (more)