The fireman's controls (for the stoker) on Woodward 2-10-0 No. 41, displayed at the Mid Continent Railway Museum. The locomotive is a stock Baldwin Decapod, nearly identical to Strasburg's 90.

Ex-USAF GE giving rides at Prairie Village near Madison, South Dakota. The ride was formerly powered by Duluth & Northeastern 0-6-0 No. 29, now out of service for repair work.

Canadian Pacific 8765, operating DP with another unit on the rear, leads a loaded potash train through Dakota on a frosty January morning.

These eight lease units spent most of the summer of 2012 in storage on a nearly hidden spur track near Cottage Grove, Minnesota. Heading up the consist is CEFX 3121, which in a former life was So... (more)

Cab interior of Tooele Valley Railroad 2-8-0 No. 11. The locomotive was built by Alco's Brooks works in 1910 as Buffalo & Susquehanna No. 169, but was never delivered. It was resold and became T... (more)

One of ten 125-ton, 3,200 hp GE electrics built for the Utah Copper Division of Kennecott Copper, No. 402 is exhibited at the Oquirrh Mountain Mining Museum near Tooele along with ore car 880 and ... (more)

Fireman Davy clearing out the ashes the hard way - with a shovel and a wheelbarrow - the same way they've been doing it since No. 4 came to the railroad in the 1920s.

Baldwin No. 2 crosses the "Highline" at the Ironhorse Railroad Park.

Jim Kaufhold is firing No. 4 as it pulls upgrade towards the station.

D&NE 28 is being prepared for asbestos abatement in the Cloquet Terminal's (ex-D&NE) engine house at Cloquet. The air compressors and other piping have been stripped off in preparation for this w... (more)

An EMD and an GE team up on a coal train headed south on the BNSF's Hinkley Subdivision. The train is a few miles south of Bruno, heading for the Twin Cities.

CP 9350 waits to be placed on an outbound train at Canadian Pacific's St. Paul Yard in this elevated view taken from the Sightseer Lounge aboard Amtrak No. 8, the Empire Builder.

At dusk, the Red Wing Patrol waits alongside the ex-Milwaukee Road depot for a eastbound freight to clear before heading towards Lake City.

Timeless scene in Duluth as "GN 423" crosses the French River Bridge. Wisconsin Great Northern 423 was lettered GN for this special Railfan Weekend event.

"Great Northern 423" (a former C&NW F7 owned by Wisconsin Great Northern, painted GN colors and sporting magnetic GN lettering) crosses over the French River Bridge with a Railfan Weekend excursi... (more)