A view from the turntable of NS' gathering of its heritage locomotives at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC during the media preview day. Thanks to NS / NCTM for hosting this... (more)

Lehigh Valley Coal Company 0-6-0ST No. 126 heads towards the Highway 321 crossing as it makes it way back to the Rockton yard of the South Carolina Railroad Museum.

Lehigh Valley Coal Company no. 126 pushes its train up the grade past Greenbrier, SC on a gorgeous fall morning. The locomotive spent two weekends as a working guest at the South Carolina Railroa... (more)

Steamy night at Tweetsie Railroads very first night photo session. Thanks go to Clint Renegar, Ben Earp, Tim Smith, Ken Riddle, and of course Tweetsie Railroad.

Tweetsie 12 and 190 double header start the next Wild West train around the loop.

Flagg Coal Company 0-4-0ST No. 75 pours it on. The locomotive is just about to cross Hwy 321 as it makes it way back to the Rockton yard of the South Carolina Railroad Museum.

Former Buffalo Creek & Gauley #4 hauls an excursion at the North Carolina Transportation Museum during the summer of 1997.

One final embrace before the whistle blows, and number 14 pulls off from Barber Junction into the night. A big thanks to fellow RP contributor Ben Earp and his girlfriend for posing for this scene... (more)

The 620 is in charge of the caboose train at NCTM's Rail Days Festival.

For a 1.5 mile loop, there are a surprising number of photo possibilities. A flock of geese scatter as #9 begins barking up the very steep back side of the loop track on the first run of the day.... (more)

Shay 1925 leads a short train around the NCTM grounds.

Good ol' Smokey - one of my favorite "small" tourist steam engines, former US Army, now Great Smokey Mountains Railroad rides the grade closely following the Tuckasegee River in NC. She's current... (more)

(Pentax K10D with DA 50-200mm lens)