Canadian Pacific's 4-6-4 Hudson "The Empress" accelerates through downtown Sawyer after meeting a westbound freight just west of town.

Bringing up the rear of the World's Fair Daylight, a 13-car train of privately-owned passenger cars – all painted in Daylight red and orange – heading to the 1984 World's Fair in... (more)

Just after sunset, the World's Fair Daylight, a 13-car train pulled by former Southern Pacific GS-4 class 4-8-4 steam locomotive 4449, crosses over Fresno's Belmont Avenue. The train will ... (more)

Florida East Coast 148 leads its cane train through Lake Harbor on a sunny spring morning.

Union Pacific 2-8-8-0 3604 leads 61 car freight number 258 east at 12 MPH in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Through the Block. The FEC 148 passes through the diamond on a U.S. Sugar sponsored charter.

Having finished their switching moves for the day, DMIR 332 is almost back to the barn to tie up.

The Final Spike Tour has started and Day One is about to wrap up with the train between Medicine Hat and Dunmore. Interesting set up between yards here plus the landscape is an escape from the ot... (more)

Golden Hour Empress The much-awaited return of steam to North Dakota was met with a phenomenal show from the whole CPKC crew. At golden hour, the CP Empress steam locomotive... (more)

Having just departed Minot on the third leg of the CPKC Final Spike Steam Tour about fifteen minutes earlier, CP 2816, 1401, and 4107 roll eastbound through the small hamlet of Logan, North Dakota... (more)

Florida East Coast 148 rests at Rogers Road on a sunny April Morning.

Passing By. The FEC 148 runs by over the Miami Canal as a fisherman watches.

US Sugar Corporation 4-6-2 leaves Lake Placid on the last Saturday of April 2024 heading back to Clewiston behind a sweet steam engine.

Victory lap. For both the Empress and the photographer. In 2011, my last visit to see her in action was met with "diesel substitute" as she went down with repair. She was repaired, tes... (more)

US Sugar Corporation 4-6-2 prepares to leave the locomotive shop in Clewiston, Florida with her excursion train on the last Saturday of april in 2024. She was built in April 1920 by American Lo... (more)