Train time at Clifton Forge on a foggy winter morning.

Break time at Clifton Forge yard. Crewmen warm themselves around a pot bellied stove during a pause from their switching chores. The engineer takes opportunity to clean the cab window of his engin... (more)

One of two tiny stretches of street running in Tacoma. This one is BNSF's line, delivering a couple loads of ethanol to the refinery at the north end of "D" street. The crewmen is a keeping a c... (more)

The Battenkill crew has backed the colorful 605 to pick up four loads dropped by the Pan Am RJ-1 local. On the left is the Pan Am Freight Main near CPF448.

Leaning against his trusty Ford F-250 a mechanical employee is poised for a roll-by inspection of a southward British Columbia Railway train arriving at the division point of Lillooet, BC on a bea... (more)

Like a view through a porthole of a worker in a shipyard, here is a member of Union Pacific’s Steam Shop crew grinding in the firebox of 4-8-4 No. 844, looking through the firebox door opening i... (more)

The cab of Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 allows the crew to operate the motive power back in the train as well as the operations of the plow itself. The unique “marine windows” are ... (more)

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 resides in the Steam Shop at Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 25, 2013. During the winter months, the plow is readied for service and stands by in case it is ne... (more)

Seems a scene from the past, the stationmaster of Spinazzola, with the help of his white four-legged "collegue", gives the "all clear" signal to the engineer of one of the only three daily serices... (more)

Cab shot of MBTX 1133, a GP40MC. Taken with permission

Lending truth to the name "armstrong lever," the signal box operator at Tipperary leans waaaaay back to line up the morning eastbound service from Limerick Junction to Waterford. The levers are d... (more)

The conductor on 470's train, gives the east switch at New Hampton a quick sweep, and now is in the process of lining the switch for the main after meeting a 361 train. The snow is coming down har... (more)

Passing the torch. One of the stark realities of steam railroad operations is that most of the men who serviced and ran the locomotives in actual service are gone now. Even the first coupl... (more)

Four veteran Interstate Railroad employees on the Second Yard Crew pose with their motive power--INT number 25--on a fall afternoon in 1953. The occasion is the last use of the Consolidation. Left... (more)

Grandsons.