Former Amtrak F40PHR #231 at Nevada State Railroad Museum's locomotive shop in Boulder City, NV undergoing preparations for stripping the old red and orange paint scheme. A model painted up by the... (more)

PA and PA in PA: An N-scale NKP PA poses next to the real thing at Steamtown.

An early morning L509 makes It’s trek down the Illinois River Subdivision with a pair of IC SD70s, 1000 and 1034, as they arrive at East Morris to serve Aux Sable and Equistar. My Athearn Genesi... (more)

On a beautiful clear blue sky afternoon in the South Suburbs, CN L536 clips on south on the CN Chicago Subdivision with a trio of IC SD70’s. IC 1000, 1019 and 1004. Seen here heading through Oly... (more)

MNTX 454A now sits in the public part of the roundhouse at the Minnesota Transportation Museum. It was on the shop side but now more easily seen as it awaits for repairs/funding.

It is Beamish Museum's annual steam weekend and this year there is a great deal of activity concentrating on the road side of things. Not much is taking place on rails. One of the guests to the pa... (more)

Forever in 1:48. When the "Farewell To The R-32s" excursions were announced, NYC subway fans had hoped that they would again have to opportunity to see the famous "blue doors... (more)

The world's smallest and largest ALC-42s meet. 301 wearing the Day 1 50th Anniversary livery and 300 wearing Phase VI, represented as wooden toys compatible with BRIO and other wooden trai... (more)

Now this one could also be researched as F7(A) or with the reporting mark SBVR....so I'm meeting in the middle. Built as, and now restored as, CRR 800, 8016 poses in Petersburg for the WV Rails e... (more)

A really useful engine indeed! Thomas poses for a picture with his larger friend, the Little River 110. Little River 110 takes on water after a day of pulling the Santa Express. Thomas was gratefu... (more)

Tait motor 327M is seen on display at the 2020 Newport Workshops open weekend. On the right you can see a 7' 1/4" gauge Tait set from the Diamond Valley Railway. You can watch a walk-around v... (more)

A pair of former SP F7A units bring the road train up beside the LNW home office.

Double Lucky

Some kid in Hinton, West Virginia had the perfect situation for a very young railfan. Not only could he watch the heavy traffic on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line from... (more)

"Big Brother" Amidst the photographers gathered at the reunion of steam at Strasburg Railroad this past October, the opportunity presented itself to introduce my HO scale 611 to the r... (more)

K-37 #491 makes laps around the short 1/3 mile museum loops while Thomas makes laps on the G scale garden layout.